This photo is the third of seven in a panorama taken from the top of the Punta Gorda water tower. The Hotel Charlotte Harbor (formerly the Hotel Punta Gorda) can be seen in the background. Barron Collier and Cornelius Vanderbilt bought the hotel in 1924; they enlarged it and had the facade remodeled to the Mediterranean style seen here.

This photo is an excerpt of a panorama of Punta Gorda taken from the top of the water tower. It shows the Hotel Charlotte Harbor (formerly the Hotel Punta Gorda) after the hotel was purchased and remodeled in Mediterranean style by Barron Collier and Cornelius Vanderbilt.