Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Photographs
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Creation Date
January 1980
Time Period
circa 1980s-1990s
Abstract
Between the first and top stories, the building has a simple fenestration in a central bay four windows wide and slightly projecting corner bays which are continued as towers above a frieze-like string course. Above the frieze there is a wealth of decoration: balconies, spandrels, mullions, window surrounds, and cornices in cast stone and terra-cotta. John Eberson designed this theater, built in 1925. Eberson invented the so-called atmospheric theater, and this one has, in addition to lavish interior decorations, a make-believe open-air auditorium: the plaster ceiling hung from metal trusses has holes with lights behind (to simulate a starry sky) and is surrounded by tiled roof edges and "exterior" walls with blind windows and balconies to give the audience the sense of being in a Mediterranean piazza. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is a detail of the southwest tower.
Keywords
Motion picture theaters, Office buildings, John Eberson (1875-1954)
Extent
1 color slide
Geographic Location
Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.)
Physical Collection
Box
1
Media Type
Color slides
Note
Title supplied by cataloger. Description supplied by Sape A. Zylstra.
Identifier
Z03-A067
Recommended Citation
Zylstra, Sape A., "Tampa Theatre and Office Building, 711 Franklin Street, Tampa, Florida, Detail, Southwest Tower" (1980). Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Photographs. Image 67.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zylstra/67
Keywords
Motion picture theaters, Office buildings, John Eberson (1875-1954)