Street View of Housing on 5th Avenue, Tampa

Creator

Progress Village

Files

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Creation Date

1-1-1957

Time Period

circa 1957-1960

Abstract

A street view of cars parked on the side of the road and homes on Fifth Avenue in Tampa, Florida, likely in the 1600 block. This photo was used during a presentation promoting Progress Village, a suburb community designed to provide Tampa's Black residents with homes and yards in satisfactory surroundings with adequate zoning.

Keywords

Housing, Community welfare councils, Planned communities, Progress Village

Extent

1 color photograph

Subject: geographic

Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.)

Physical Collection

Progress Village Collection

Box

3

Folder

15

Digital Date

2024

Media Type

Color photographs

Note

"The Scrub" neighborhood was founded by freed enslaved people after the Civil War just north of downtown Tampa and near Central Avenue's thriving Black-owned businesses including the Pyramid Hotel started by Isaac Gardner. It consisted of over 600 homes, housing workers for nearby lumber mills. It was declared a slum by the City of Tampa in the 1950s and razed to create the Central Park Village housing development. Parts of the area were razed again to build I-275 in the 1950s.

Identifier

progress_village_images_1019

Recommended Citation

Progress Village, "Street View of Housing on 5th Avenue, Tampa" (1957). Progress Village Collection - Images. Image 20.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/progress_village_images/20