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Tampa To Build History Center Museum
The generosity of local businesses, citizens,
government, volunteers and a dedicated staff
and Board of Trustees has allowed the Tampa
Bay History Center to grow from its original
Preview Center on Harbour Island to a 6000
square foot interim facility in the Tampa
Convention Center Annex.
The immediate goals for the future of the facility
are: to develop the permanent site at
Cotanchobee-Fort Brooke Park; to expand the
quality staff to meet growing demands; to attract
outstanding exhibits for the future to enhance the
current outreach education programs; and to
increase the number of exhibits in satellite
locations.
The Center is beginning an exciting "final stage"
in the development of a permanent history
museum for our community. In December of 2004,
Tampa and Hillsborough County leaders formally
signed a deal to build the $17 million Tampa Bay
History Center on parkland fronting Garrison
Channel. Former Tampa Mayor Dick Greco
indicated that the City of Tampa would provide
the land for the new building in the developing
downtown Cultural Arts District, and this sentiment
has been echoed by current mayor Pam Iorio as
well.
With these key steps in place, the Center is now
challenged with raising private sector support to
prepare for a smooth transition into a new
museum to open in 2008. The demand and need
for this type of facility in the Tampa Bay area is
evident by the growth pattern the Center has
experienced over the past ten years. Putting it
simply, the Tampa Bay History Center is a valuable
community resource that will continue to preserve
the unique and rich cultural heritage of the Tampa
Bay area.
This Article and photo from Tampa History Center
shows what the future holds.
For More Information Visit
Our Tampa History Pages
Or Visit
http://www.tampabayhistorycenter.org/
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What is that
thing off
I-275 in Tampa?
Photo By John Tillman
It's the.....
Sulphur Springs Water Tower
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To serve his rapidly
growing
Sulphur Springs
ventures, real
estate promoter Josiah Richardson
built a water tower on the banks of
the Hillsborough
River near Florida
Avenue between 1925 and 1927.
Constructed of Poured-in-place
concrete, the 210-foot tower stood
over a
boiling spring. An elevator
carried people up the cylinder to the
observation
balcony, which provided
a panoramic view of this
bucolic river
setting. Richardson's original hope
of
club rooms occupying the floors
between the
spring-feed base and
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(Book Excerpt)
from
PIONEER Commercial PHOTOGRAPHY
The Burgert Brothers Tampa, Florida
by
Robert E. Snyder and
Jack B. Moore
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Suphur
Springs Water Tower
Parcel To Become A Park
by John Tillman
 
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Incase you didn't
know, the city
of Tampa is planning to turn the
13 acre parcel into a wonderful
"passive Park".
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This Months Feature
Henry B. Plant Museum
at the University of Tampa
Formerly the
Tampa Bay Hotel, 1891
"The moorish arches, with graceful
horseshoe curves everywhere...
Thirteen marble columns
support a
balcony forming the second story.
In public rooms paintings of late
French school
stand side by side
with faded old masters.
Everywhere mirrors in golden frames
antique
and modern - massive doors
in beveled glass leading to parlors,
halls, libraries and writing rooms."
The parlor was furnished with
beautiful old antiques,
and in the
dining room the waiter brought "beef
on a bit of French porcelain, your
salad on an old Vienna plate, ice on
a saucer designed by Moritz Fischer
and
coffee in a Wedgwood cup."
The hotel, one of the finest resort
hotels in the
world, also offered a
club
house, large swimming pool,
double bowling alley,
and a
shuffleboard room.
(From The Tatler, 1893.)
For more information on the
Henry B. Plant Museum.
Check out our
Art Galleries & Museums page.
Baylife On Planet Earth
TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA
Tampa is a city of History.
Founded in
the early 1800's as Fort (George Mercer)
Brooke, at the mouth of the Hillsborough
River where it empties into Tampa Bay,
its original reason-for-being was to quell
the "Seminole Menace", but afterward it
became central to activities both military
and civilian. From there Tampa City has
grown into a sprawling metropolis of
huge proportions. To learn more about
Fort Brooke as the beginning of Tampa,
visit
tampabayhistorycenter.org/ftbrooke.htm
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