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The homes of yesteryear at lower prices
By Times staff writer © St. Petersburg Times, published March 31, 2001
When: Noon to 5 p.m. April 8. Where: The Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa, roughly from the Hillsborough River on the north and west to 22nd Street on the east and Hillsborough Avenue on the south. Tickets: $5, sold from noon to 4 p.m. on tour day at the Garden Center in the 5800 block of Central Avenue. What else: More than 1,500 people visited this neighborhood in each of the first two years. Parking is available at the Seminole Heights United Methodist Church at 6111 Central Ave. (at Hanna); a trolley will carry tourgoers to the Garden Center. (On-street parking is limited.) Hartline trolleys will circle the tour route. Boy Scouts will sell food and drink at the Garden Center and at two of the trolley stops along the route. More to know: Transportation gave birth to this neighborhood and nearly killed it. The trolley that ran from Sulphur Springs to Ballast Point made it possible in the early decades of the last century for workers to live in Seminole Heights and commute 3 miles to their jobs in downtown Tampa. A solid, blue-collar neighborhood grew up along Central Avenue. Then, in 1966, I-275 knifed through Seminole Heights, fracturing its cohesiveness and promoting pockets of decline. But in the last 10 or 15 years the neighborhood has begun to recover, attracting buyers who want the original architecture, wood floors, front porches, high ceilings and charming details of the homes of yesteryear at prices lower than those in Hyde Park and other parts of south Tampa. Information: (813) 234-2042 or (813) 239-2070.
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What: Third annual Seminole Heights neighborhood tour, Tampa. Twelve homes and two gardens will be open. Tour homes include 1920s bungalows, foursquares, Mediterranean Revival, and homes from the 1940s and '50s.
