The Old Pinecrest Hotel is a historic site in Avon Park, Florida, United States

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. It was located at 1609 South Lake Lotela Drive, on the shores of Lake Lotela.

In 1989, it was listed as the Pinecrest Hotel - Florida Capital of the Age of Enlightenment in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press."

It served as a country club

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 and a girls boarding school, The Highlands School, before it was purchased in 1994 by the Transcendental Meditation movement

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 for use as a school.

On March 24, 2000, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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. As of March 2, 2007 the hotel has been either removed from its site or demolished. The only visible remains on the site are palm trees.