Construction Dates for Hyde Park Houses
The first two Adobe Acrobat files summarize the data collected and
analyzed from the sources listed below. The maps allow you to visual the
data.
The following resources are available for
determining an approximate build date for a particular house in our
neighborhood.
Original Plats of the two subdivisions: Morrison Grove and West Hyde Park
Note that there may be more than one plat of a
portion of a subdivision on the displayed page. This information is
from the Hillsborough County Clerk of the Circuit Court's records.
1913 City of Tampa Tax Assessment Roll
From the July 8, 1913 Tampa Tribune, we have a
list of properties in the city grouped by subdivision and identified by
subdivision block and lot where it is indicated who owned the lot, the value
of the lot and, importantly for our purpose, the value of any structure on
the lot.
The links below are to the three pages of
the 1913 Tax Roll that contain our two subdivisions, West Hyde Park and
Morrison Grove. On the first page, you will find the West Hyde
Park subdivision which is then continued onto page two. Further along on page
two, you will find Morrison Grove (the part in section 26). Then on the third page you will find the part of
Morrison Grove that runs from the east side of S Boulevard to the bay containing
Fielding, Brevard and the part of Bayshore between Inman and Boulevard (the
part in section 25).
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Hyde Park (really Morrison Grove and
West Hyde Park). These maps show the individual structures
existent in 1915 and 1922. These are large images, about 2860 pixels x 3250
pixels. The 1931 map is larger at 7200 pixels x 7305 pixels. So you will have to scroll your browser window if you are to
see the entire map at its true size. If the entire map fits on your screen,
then you are not viewing it at full size. You should be able to click
your mouse on the map to make it enlarge to full size. Warning: A few
of the house numbers do not match the present house numbers. For
example 823 may now be 825, etc.
You may view more such maps online at the University of Florida Digital
Collections at
http://ufdcweb1.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?c=sanborn
Old Tampa City Directories 1907 - 1915
These files are partial City Directories in that
they contain only the street listing of residents and not the alphabetical
listing. The complete digital version of these R. L. Polk & Co. Tampa
City Directories may be found in the Florida Heritage Collection of the
University of Florida,
http://palmm.fcla.edu/fh/.
Some of these Adobe Acrobat files were quite
large. However, by both optimizing them and performing optical
character recognition (OCR) on them, they have been reduced in size considerably
and are thus more easily downloaded. however, due to the quality of the
original images, the OCR was far from complete.
Be warned, though, that some
old house numbers do not match the current number.
1907,
1908,
1909,
1910,
1912,
1913,
1914,
1915
Census Records for 1920 and 1930 for our neighborhood
This information was acquired through Ancestory.com (subscription required).
For any enumeration district, they provide the actual images of the census
sheets (100 names to a sheet). In addition, a transcription of the
data for each person listed is provided. For each sheet, I download
this transcribed data and then added the street name and house number to
this data by entering what was listed on the image of that sheet. All
of this data was entered into to a spread sheet. This is the
source of the Raw Census data for 1920 and 1930. Since this
information was entered mostly in whatever route the census taker walked the
neighborhood, the data was not in a strict street-house number order.
To accomplish that , I imported that information into a database so as to be
able to order it, first by street, then second by house number. This
is the source of the ordered census data.
If you wish to see the actual data on microfilm, you may use the source
information available at end of each image section to view the page at any
library possessing census microfilms, including the downtown
Tampa/Hillsborough county Library. In the Florida censuses, it was sometimes
difficult to determine the owner of the house when several names were
associated with the address.
1920
Raw Census Data,
1920
Ordered Census Data
1930
Raw Census Data,
1930
Ordered Census Data
1935
Raw Florida Census Data,
1935
Ordered Florida Census Data
1945
Raw Florida Census Data,
1945
Ordered Florida Census Data
Burgert Brothers Dated Photos of Our Area. Approximately 150 photos,
mostly in the 1920s, of houses in our neighborhood.
Burgert Hyde Park
Dates Stamped in Concrete
There is one final source of useful information. That is the dates
that are stamped on some driveways, driveway aprons and walkways up to the
houses.
Dates stamped in Driveways, etc.
Our Oldest House - 850 Newport. The William Morrison
house at 850 S Newport Avenue was built in 1880 on land purchased in 1878.
The Sunland Tribune of September 23, 1880 contains an article in the second
column of page 3 describing the construction of the house.
Click
here to see this paper.
Articles about Hyde Park in old TampaTribunes
Hyde Park
in the Tampa Tribune 1895 - 1936