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A renovator's dream neighborhood

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[Times photo: Fred Victorin]
An antique piano graces the living room of a home that started out as a Sears “kit house” when it was built in the 1920s. The house also has a basement.

By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times
published April 13, 2002


What: Second annual Old Southeast Tour of Homes
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 20
Where: Old Southeast neighborhood of St. Petersburg, between Fourth Street S and Tampa Bay and from 16th to 22nd Avenues SE. The neighborhood lies south of Bayboro Harbor, the USF campus and the Dali Museum.
Tickets: $5 on tour day at Lassing Park, along Tampa Bay from 16th to 22nd Avenues SE. Children 12 and younger free.
The houses: Organizers expect to have 11 homes on this year's tour. This is an up-and-coming This Old House neighborhood, where residents are busy renovating older homes. Styles are a mix: Queen Anne, bungalow, foursquare, colonial, Mediterranean. There are modest cottages and grand mansions on the waterfront. The jewel of the neighborhood is 14-acre Lassing Park on Tampa Bay, where shorebirds scavenge for food and residents play and watch the sun rise. It is a neighborhood of diverse housing stock, income and demographics.
Information: (727) 827-0024.

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