In 1897, a boat sank off the coast of Daytona Beach. One of the occupants, Stephen Crane, author of “The Red Badge of Courage,” recovered in an Italianate Victorian-style home built in 1884.

DAYTONA BEACH — Lilian Place, a Victorian-era mansion that is the oldest home on the beachside, is showing signs of age and neglect. Termites gnaw its interior, water leaks through its walls and ...