NORTH BREVARD HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Original owner and builder Alfred W. Lee and family are captured on a postcard showing the dock in back of their home.
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Titusville couple embarks on a journey to restore their historical home
By Christopher Brooks
Ever since I was a preteen growing
up in South Florida in the 1960s, I
have been fascinated by the space
program. Aside from wanting to be an
astronaut like many kids, I wished I lived
close to the space center where I could
watch the rocket launches first hand.
So, when I met Connie Maggi at a dance
and found out she had lived in Titusville
from ‘66 and her father had been an
engineer for the NASA program through
the Bendix Corp., I instantly connected
with her.
That was in Gainesville in 2016. She was
in a relationship with someone at the
time but three years later, she was available
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and we started dating. Two years
into the relationship I retired from my
job of 30 years as a primary care physician
for the State of Florida. I always
wanted to live on the coast with a water
view and now I was free to pursue this
dream. Even better, a water view across
from the space center.
Coincidentally Connie was thinking
of moving back to Titusville to help
watch over her aging mother. She, too,
is a physician and works as a medical
director for a large insurance company.
The fact that she worked from home
made relocating much easier. Neither of
us was comfortable living on the ocean
shore, but we were good with living
somewhere on the mainland along the
Indian River.
HOUSE HUNTING
Arriving in Titusville for the first time,
I noted the entry sign with the words:
Nature, History, Space. We wanted to
take advantage of all three.
At first, we looked at condominiums and
actually got into negotiations over one
in Titusville but then, COVID hit. Not
knowing what the impact would be on
the real estate market, we pulled back
to see what would happen. As it turned
out, the world did not collapse and we
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SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
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FOLLOWS A
TITUSVILLE
COUPLE
AS THEY
RESTORE
THEIR
HISTORICAL
HOME
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