HOMES OF THE TREASURE COAST
IF THE
WALLS
COULD
TALK
BY GREG GARDNER
PHOTOS BY ROB DOWNEY
Oral history has
95-year-old Vero
Beach estate the
site of a Roaring
’20s speakeasy
Known today as Crescent Moon, the
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95-year-old estate in western Vero
Beach has been the location of secret
liaisons during Prohibition and a
Àctional tryst between an American Mournalist
and a Nicaraguan Sandinista rebel portrayed in a
+ollywood movie.
The .acre estate has a legendary ² yet
largely undocumented ² past and was added in
199 to the 1ational 5egistry of +istoric 3laces.
Built in 19 by 1ew <ork couple Theodore and
Blanche +ausmann on the then 1acre parcel,
the home was ´used as a winter residence and an
informal nightclub, or ¶speak easy,· ·· according
to the historical signiÀcance cited in support of it
being named to the registry.
´The etent to which the residence served as >>
