Interior of the Everglades Model Steam Laundry customer drop off and pick up area, 1929.
The commercial laundry offered wet and dry cleaning, dying, alterations and custom tailoring. The Collier Company leased the building to T. M. Sellars, a dry cleaning businessman from St. Louis, MO, who moved from Ft. Myers to Everglades in 1926. The laundry opened October 27, 1927. Today, the laundry is a branch facility of the Collier County Museums. The Museum of the Everglades opened to the public in April 1998.