Document Type
Other
Publication Date
6-1-1997
Keywords
Nelson Poynter Memorial Library -- Catalogs; Florida -- Archival resources; Archives -- Florida -- Catalogs; Real estate developers -- Florida -- St. Petersburg; Fox, Harrison W.; Fox, William G.; Homebuilders Association of Greater St. Petersburg; St. Petersburg Builder's and Contractor's Association; Local and Regional History Provenance
Abstract
In 1996, Dr. Raymond O. Arsenault donated the Harrison W. Fox Real Estate Collection to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. The collection contains the personal papers of Harrison W. Fox, a prominent and successful third-generation real estate developer in post-World War II St. Petersburg. Mr. Fox was a very active member of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), and an officer in both the Homebuilder's Association of Greater St. Petersburg (of which he was a charter member and the Association's first secretary) and the St. Petersburg Builder's and Contractor's Association. The bulk of the collection consists of documents of these professional associations and includes correspondence, membership information, telegrams, board meeting notes, and bylaws covering the period from 1946 through 1987, with the majority covering the period from 1946 through 1960. The collection also contains numerous photographs and floor plans of homes constructed by Fox and Fox Builders and Contractors during the 1940s and 1950s in St. Petersburg. Corporate information consisting of ledger books, payroll records, and accounts for the period from 1946 to 1956 also resides in the collection, as well as some early records (circa 1925) regarding the Empire Realty Company of William G. Fox (Harrison W. Fox's grandfather).
Superseded Note
This finding aid has been superseded. To access the most up-to-date collection documentation, please visit USF St. Petersburg Special Collections & University Archives' repository on ArchivesSpace.
Rights Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Scholar Commons Citation
Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections and University Archives.; Whitaker, Candace S.; and Arsenault, Kathleen, "Harrison W. Fox Real Estate Collection : A Finding Aid" (1997). Special Collections and University Archives Legacy Finding Aids: All Items. 39.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/scua_finding_aid_all/39
Comments
5 p. and 1 p. addendum by Kathy Arsenault for supplemental materials donated in January 2000.