Harbor Oaks, Clearwater: The Riviera of the Sunny South
How Clearwater’s first planned residential neighborhood became one of Tampa Bay’s most remarkable collections of historic homes By Mark Middleton
How Clearwater’s first planned residential neighborhood became one of Tampa Bay’s most remarkable collections of historic homes By Mark Middleton
From sponge boats and Greek traditions to historic homes, Gulf beaches, and one of North Pinellas County’s most distinctive places
You can spend an afternoon downtown, walk the Pinellas Trail, have dinner near Main Street, watch the sunset over St. Joseph Sound, and leave thinking you understand the place.
Then you begin looking a little closer.
An old railroad depot sits beside the trail. A house on Scotland Street has been standing since the nineteenth century. The road to Honeymoon Island leads toward land that did not always look the way it does now. The Fenway Hotel rises above Edgewater Drive like something left behind by another era.
How a neighborhood shaped by the river, transportation, and generations of homeowners became one of Tampa’s most recognizable places. By
Behind the familiar Main Street is a much older story of people drawn to the water, communities built around it,
If you drive south through western St. Petersburg, past Jungle Prada and toward the Pasadena Yacht and Country Club, you
A house built in 1925 has been standing for a hundred years. It went up when Calvin Coolidge was president,
A note before I begin. This Journal usually covers historic homes. Crescent Lake Park is not a home. It is