Our Achievements
The Mayfield Park Community Project group has been active since 1986. We’re proud of what we have been able to accomplish with the helps of our volunteers and partners.
Cottage Restoration Projects:
- Development of the Preservation Master Plan
- Replaced all cedar posts with concrete piers
- Replaced all plumbing
- Restored original roof line and replaced roof
- Replaced/repaired all exterior carpentry
- Restored living room, dining room, parlor, bridal changing rooms, kitchen, two bathrooms
- Painted cottage exterior
- Restored chimney
- Installed HVAC throughout the cottage, except for sunporch
Outbuilding Restoration Projects:
- Restored two outbuildings for volunteers
- Replaced garage
- Restored pigeon cote
Garden Areas Restoration Projects:
- Installed/restored waterfall fountain
- Resealed, repaired, and repainted five ponds
- Installed irrigation system throughout 2 acres inside walls
- Installed landscape lighting throughout 2 acres inside walls
- Removed all ball moss and dead limbs from 116 live oaks, elms, and junipers within walls and immediately outside entry gate
- Planted 40 oleanders outside walls along W. 35th Street, since diseased
- Planted 15 Mexican plums, flowering peach, and crape myrtles
- Planted 10 Sabal Texan palms
- Supervised ongoing coordination of 30 garden plots adopted by community gardeners
- Replaced three single wrought iron gates
- Replaced one double wrought iron gate
- Replaced finials for two sets of double-entry gates
- Installed accessible sidewalk lined with palms leading to the cottage and former front driveway