Daytona’s Abbey house marks 140th year on Beach Street
The two-story wood-frame house at 426 S. Beach Street, just down the street from the Halifax Yacht Club, was the place where Daytona Beach started. “It’s the mother of Daytona Beach,” says William Braun, who has been spearheading efforts to preserve the historic building. Built in 1875, the house, dubbed “the Abbey” in the nineteenth…