It’s important for a community to preserve its buildings and structures but equally important is remembering the people who helped make the place a neighborhood. One of these people to whom the community owes a debt recently died. She was Jane Liggett, who moved to South Tampa in 1976 to renovate her house.
If you have an extra $2.3 million and you’re in the market for a new house, you might be interested in this. The house designed for Isaac Maas, a founder of the Maas Brothers Department Stores is for sale. It’s on the corner of Edison and Bayshore Boulevard. Designed by architect Franklin O. Adams, the house was built in 1923.
If you’ve never been to the University of Tampa campus, here’s a good excuse to go. In addition to the school, the historic building is also home to The Henry B. Plant Museum, which has an interesting exhibit called Mementos from under the Minarets.
The St. Pete Times is reporting that an excavation by archaeologist Billy Ray Morris and Florida Aquarium divers have uncovered what may be the Civil War blockade runner Kate Dale in the Hillsborough River. The boat was burned by Union troops and sank on Oct. 17, 1863.
The “Florida Museum of Photographic Arts is presenting “Panoramic Views of the Past”, an exhibit featuring twenty-four panoramic or “Cirkut” images of the Burgert Brothers. (more…)
Since Gasparilla is coming up I thought that I’d post something about the history of Jose Gaspar or as he referred to himself “Gasparilla” and how he became the inspiration for a South Tampa festival.
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Hyde Park has been around for over a hundred years and it’s interesting to look back over the years and see how it has changed. A great way to do this is with historical photograph collections from photographers like the Burger Brothers and Robertson and Fresh.
