Boone House (St. Petersburg, Florida)

The Boone House is a historic home in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It was built in 1910, and is significant because of its masonry construction, and Colonial Revival Style architecture. According to a 1978 survey of 26 other homes that were built no later than 1910, only the Willard and the Boone Houses feature masonry construction.[2] The house is named after Benjamin T. Boone, who devoted himself to real estate development in St. Petersburg. It is located at 601 Fifth Avenue North. On July 3, 1986, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Boone House
Location601 5th Avenue North, St. Petersburg, Florida
Coordinates27°46′38″N 82°38′31″W
Architectural styleColonial Revival
NRHP reference No.86001457[1]
Added to NRHP3 July 1986

The house is square in plan with a central hall. The Colonial Revival Style can be seen in the symmetrically balanced windows and center door. Although rather small in size at only 2,256 square feet, the house appears monumental due to its symmetric plan and imposing entrance portico complete with four paired ionic columns.

The most notable person to live in the house after Boone was Alfred Lowther Forrest, AIA, who rented it from 1943 to 1949. Forrest was an English architect who moved to St. Petersburg in 1936, where he worked on the Pasadena Community Church and the St. Petersburg City Hall of 1939.[2]

References
  1. "National Register Information System – Boone House (#86001457)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 9 July 2010.
  2. "The Boone House 601 Fifth Avenue North HPC #91-01, Designated October 1991" (PDF). stpete.org. Retrieved 2019-07-17.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.