The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-16
Hudgins Says
Boon, On Key Due
To Electricity
By SUSAN MeAvoY


By SUSAN MeAvoY
A deluxe $4,000 motel,
the first ON the Lower Keys
10 going up at Summerland
Beach now, and will be
ready for occupancy next
season, Henry Hudgins of
Hudgins and Alfonso an
nounced today. :"
The company which has
been selling land hand over
fist on Summerland Key
since the first of the year,
o doing the grading and
filling for the new motel.
"Our boom up here in
Summerland, "a miles from
Key West, l attribute to the
advent Of electricity on the
Lower Keys" Hudgins said.
City Electric system expects
that power will be available
BY November.
The new motel, which is
On the Atlantic side of U. S.
], and facss the magnificent
sweep Of Niles Channel and
the Niles Channel Bridge, is
owned by . company incor-
porated, fittingly enough,
BY the name Of ''The Nile"
The luxury motel with six double
cabins, yacht basin, swimming
pool, recreation building and resi-
dence, viii be known as "The
Nile.
CRUISERS up to so feet will be
sbIe to tie up In front of the motel,
bsing designed by New York City
architect Peter Paul Muller. The
swimming pool will have stainless
steel net to protect the feelings of
those, who do not trust the waters
The owners Of the motel plan to
make It almost q completely self
sufficient community. Each unit
win have housekeeping facilities.
Tennis courts will 60 up after the
main landscaping is complete.
4vmsrland's Progress
When Engineer Henry Hudgins
Alrst bought his wide holdings from
the family back In 1913, he had a
dream that the Key would some
day become \ Furnishing commu-
nifty.
He held on to the land without
development until 1949. Slowly he
began the process of filling and
grading, rolling and cutting.
Today Summerland Key promis.
o. to be the first town on the Low
OF Keys. Postmaster Henry Hudg-
ins has the only Postoffice between
Key West and Marathon. Summer
land Yacht Harbor on the Gulf side
q u. s. / has the first and only
grocery store on the Lower Keys.
evmmerlsnd Beach
The first motel, The Nile, is 20.
ing up at the same time that the
frst house on Summerland Key
was occupied by its owners Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Heyde.
Heyde, q retired mechanical en-
oineer. moved into his new home
yesterday.
Proud owner Of q foot Girls
Graft boat. Heyde chose the Niles
channel location for his new home
because Of the deep water right in
front Of him. At dead low tide he
can always be sure Of four feet Of
water. Helping nature along, Hey.
de dredsed q II foot deep turning
basin for his boat. In front of the
house which win also serve as a
swimming pool, and leads to the
boat porte.
Heyde moved from Little Torch
- Niles Channel Summerland
Beach. purely and simply for the
immediate access the deep water
gives him to the Gulf stream seven
miles out and the Gulf of Mexico
eight miles to the West. An ardent
fisherman. he plans with Mrs. Hey
de to spend his days on his boat as
soon as he has finished landscaping
his house.
Here I have water, trees, birds,
unsalted ground. and beach. what
more could ] want?" the happy
home owner said yesterday.
He referred to the gumbo hmbos,
Jamaica dogwood that grow on
Summerland Beach. The house il.
self, on stills to permit the ample
boat-porte over the water, is made
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