Schoolhouse, Campus of the University of Tampa, 401 W Lafayette St, Tampa

Creator

Sape A. Zylstra

Files

Preview

Creation Date

January 1980

Time Period

circa 1980s-1990s

Abstract

Built by General Jesse Carter circa 1855 for his daughter in the same general area where it is now, it consists of a square classroom with a porch at one end (under the same saddle roof) and at the other end a teacher's room, narrower and with a roof of equal pitch as the main roof and hence lower. The second roof could have been equally as high as the first and with a steeper pitch; or the teacher's room could have been added in the manner of the "saltbox," on the long side. But that would have been "medieval ," and the tell-tale sign (a pediment rather than a gable) shows that in however modest a form, this is Greek Revival , the reigning architectural passion in the United States from about 1820 to 1860. Listed on National Register of Historic Places. Located at 401 West Lafayette Street (now Kennedy Boulevard).

Keywords

School buildings, Greek revival (Architecture)

Extent

1 color slide

Geographic Location

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

Physical Collection

Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Architectural Slides

Box

1

Media Type

Color slides

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. Description supplied by Sape A. Zylstra.

Identifier

Z03-A001

Recommended Citation

Zylstra, Sape A., "Schoolhouse, Campus of the University of Tampa, 401 W Lafayette St, Tampa" (1980). Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Photographs. Image 1.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zylstra/1