The Kellogg Mansion | Dunedin, Florida | 1925 Mediterranean Revival Architecture

Описание: Kellogg Mansion
Aka. Dunedin Isles Villa Marina
Dunedin, Florida

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Video made possible by permission from the Wenk Family.


The Kellogg mansion was built over several years, starting in 1925, as the personal home of Edward Frischkorn, the Detroit businessman who originally developed Dunedin Isles and dreamed of building it into a city within the city.

The founder of the Kellogg’s cereal company, W.K. Kellogg, purchased it from Austin Selz, a shoe-manufacturing executive from Chicago, in 1934.

Kellogg, who was already in his 70s, spent only two winters at the Dunedin home, in 1934 and 1935. His other Florida winter was in 1933, when he rented a place in St. Petersburg.

Kellogg donated his Dunedin home to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in 1935.

Kellogg gave the house to his foundation in 1935, according to records shared by the Kellogg Foundation.
On Dec. 31, 1942, the foundation leased the property to the U.S. Marine Corps, and it became part of a base for Marines testing and training on Roebling amphibious vehicles.

The house, according to a 1943 Dunedin Times story, served as the nonmarried Marine officers’ quarters.
The tanklike Roebling vehicles, made in Dunedin, were sometimes known as “Alligators.” Before they were used in combat in the Pacific and Europe, Marines piloted them from Dunedin Isles for practice landings on Honeymoon Island.

The foundation sold the house in August 1946 for $63,500 to William I. and Caroline Nolan. Bill Matthew bought the house from Ethel King, a real estate broker from Hernando County.


The place had saltwater spigots in all the bathrooms and no air conditioning when his father, Bill Matthew, bought it in 1964. Bill Matthew, who made his money making deals to buy and sell newspapers around the country, spent the next two years installing central air, and the next four decades repairing, maintaining and updating the rest of the old house.

It was Bill Matthew who added the mosaic tile work, and commissioned the painter Don Ringelspaugh — whose work helped make the Kapok Tree restaurant so over-the-top — to paint murals throughout the house.
The disco he added had a remote control that opened up the ceiling, said another of his sons, Sidney Matthew, 70, of Tallahassee. That allowed guests to party under the stars.

Many of the more eccentric flourishes seen in photos from recent years were added decades after Kellogg’s time, starting in the ‘60s, though the footprint of the house has remained the same.

The bedroom Bill Matthew remodeled, which was believed to have used wood harvested from Thomas Jefferson’s estate, Monticello, actually used wood from land known as Pantops, owned by Jefferson’s father. Sidney Matthew did have a friendship with Sean Connery, he said, but James Bond’s rumored overnight stay in the Dunedin guest house never happened.


Peter Max Artist Designed Lighted Dance Floor



Photo Credits:
Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Music credits:

Artist: Andrés Cantú
Song: Mediterranean Nights

Artist: Riverworn
Song: A Weekend Dalliance

Artist: Riverworn
Song: Exotic Night

Artist: Riverworn
Song: Last call for Casablanca

Artist: Riverworn
Song: One Step More

Artist: Riverworn
Song: Scallops & Lime
Epidemic Sound


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