Schoolhouse, Campus of the University of Tampa, 401 West Lafayette Street, Tampa, Florida

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.

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 West Lafayette Street, Tampa, Florida" (1980). Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Photographs. Image 1.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zylstra/1