The other building with which we are most closely associated is the MacDonald House at 38 E. Granada Blvd., where we operate a Welcome Center for the City and have our offices. The Mac House (as everyone calls it) was built by a well-known area architect, Sumner Gove, who built many area landmarks, in 1903.  The person having it built was a woman, Margaret Stout, who worked at the Hotel Ormond. It is named for Billy MacDonald and his family, who purchased it in 1939. They were well known as the owners of Billy’s Tap Room, a mainstay of Ormond Beach social life for many years. Just stop for a minute and think about all the people and events that house has seen in the last 117 years!

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Today the Historical Society tells those stories through a variety of programs – lecture series, tours of area cemeteries and Plantations, kids programs, but other than a 20 minute video and a few photographs and changing exhibits in front 2 rooms of this building, we have no permanent place for visitors and Volusia County residents to come to hear these wonderful stories on an everyday basis.