Later this month, the Historic Stranahan Home Museum will host “Party in Paradise for Preservation.” Pineapple Jam will happen on Saturday, March 29, from 7 to 11 p.m., with the picturesque New River creating the proper backdrop for the informal tropical soirée at Broward County’s oldest and most historic house.
Greater than 250 neighborhood leaders wearing tropical stylish apparel will take pleasure in an open bar with tropical-inspired drinks, improbable meals and reside music. Company may also have the chance to bid on luxurious objects and unique experiences by means of a raffle and silent public sale.
Co-chaired by Whitney Dutton and Maggie Gunther, Pineapple Jam is the Historic Stranahan Home Museum’s largest annual fundraising occasion. The 2025 occasion will honor Paul and Jodi Tanner because the Particular person Honoree and Rogers, Morris and Ziegler, LLP because the Company Honoree.
All proceeds will assist the year-round historic preservation and education schemes on the Historic Stranahan Home Museum, one of many high cultural sights in Fort Lauderdale. The Historic Stranahan Home Museum is the oldest home in Fort Lauderdale and the epicenter of Broward County’s lengthy and interesting historical past. In-built 1901, Stranahan Home is acknowledged because the birthplace of Fort Lauderdale and was house to the world’s first businessman, Frank Stranahan, and the primary schoolteacher, Ivy Cromartie Stranahan. Stranahan Home opened as a museum in 1984.
Occasion sponsorships starting from $1,000 to $10,000 can be found at stranahanhouse.org/pineapple-jam-2025. Particular person tickets can be found for $175.
The 2025 Pineapple Jam sponsors confirmed to this point embody Akerman, Amazon, Rogers, Morris, and Zeigler, Tripp Scott, Broward, Palm Seashores & St. Lucie Realtors, Cushman & Wakefield, Higher Fort Lauderdale Alliance, Gulf Stream Distillery, John Knox Village, Las Olas Firm, Water Taxi, Whitney Dutton & Household, DDA, Forvis Mazars, LLP, George Aspinall Band, Miller Building, MHG Insurance coverage and South State Financial institution.
The 2025 Pineapple Jam committee members embody A.J. Belt, Caroline Carrara, Whitney Dutton, Maggie Gunther, Lindsay Hotte, Nicholas Kollias, Abbie Lipton, Sarah Lis, Kristina Lucia, Peter Neirouz, Brianna Reeves, Ashley Sawyer Smith and Marianna Seiler DeJager.
The Stranahan Home is situated at 335 SE 6th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301. Complimentary parking is offered on the Riverside Resort, situated at 620 E. Las Olas Blvd. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301. For extra particulars, please go to https://stranahanhouse.org/pineapple-jam-2025/ or contact Government Director Jennifer Belt at 954-524-4736 or [email protected].
About Historic Stranahan Home and Museum:
The Historic Stranahan Home and Museum, the oldest and most traditionally vital surviving construction in Broward County, has served as a buying and selling publish, publish workplace, city corridor and residential to the Stranahans. Frank Stranahan is Fort Lauderdale’s first businessman and most revered pioneer. His spouse, Ivy Cromartie Stranahan, was the world’s first college instructor and a champion of many civic, social service, environmental and academic causes. Right this moment, the mission of the Historic Stranahan Home Museum is to inform the story of the beginning of the neighborhood by means of the lives of two extraordinary folks and the homestead they created and to function a permanent legacy of historic preservation. Its objective is to protect, interpret and promote the Home, historic web site and historical past of our neighborhood’s founding household. Yearly, greater than 3,000 fourth-grade college kids and 30,000 vacationers and locals go to, making the Home one of many high cultural sights in Fort Lauderdale. Stranahan Home and Museum is situated at 335 SE sixth Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. Hours of operation are Monday by means of Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For extra info, please go to www.stranahanhouse.org.
