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HISTORIC HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES
FOURTH ANNUAL HISTORIC HYDE PARK HOME TOUR

Saturday, March 4, 2006
10 a.m. -2 p.m.
Kate Jackson Community Center
Tickets are $20.00

Historymeets today when the Historic Hyde Park Neighborhood Association hosts its
fourth annual tour of homes on Saturday, March 4, 2006, from 10:00 a.m. until
2:00 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased the day of the event at Kate
Jackson Community Center.

This distinctive tour, open to the public,will feature homes of historic significance and varying architectural styles. Many homes have undergone extensive restoration efforts over the years and have been carefully preserved. Guests will visit the homes at their own pace using the map and guidebook provided when they register. Homeowners will be available to offer tours and to answer questions about their home’s history and the efforts taken to preserve and upgrade their properties. Homes are also lovingly furnished and reflect the personality of the homeowners. Many homes will also have added the decorative touches of local designers and florists.

In the past three years, the Historic Hyde Park Home Tour has hosted over three
thousand guests from all over Florida, and funded historic street signs and other enhancements for our neighborhood.

Neighborhood home tours are a popular means of educating individuals about the unique areas of Tampa, while raising funds for neighborhood improvements.

For more information, call 813-727-0785.

The following weekend (March 12) you can go to Tampa Heights Tour of Homes.

You get break for several weeks then on Sunday, April 2, comes Tampa's premier spring Home Tour, The Old Seminole Heights Home Tour.

8th Annual Home Tour

The sociable residents of Old Seminole Heights invite restoration enthusiast’s do-it-yourselfers and the generally curious to explore their historic neighborhood located in the heart of Tampa. The eighth annual home tour is planned for Sunday, April 2, from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

There is a little something for everyone in historic Seminole Heights. With two National Register, and one locally-designated historic districts, the tour will offer visitors an opportunity to see many sections of the neighborhood.

One of the homes this year is a house built in 1942 by Melvin Jones, a blind man. The home was featured by Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

Home tour visitors will go inside homes from the 1920’s through the 1970’s in varied architectural styles, see restorations and renovations, completed and in progress, and meet the homeowners happy to discuss their home’s history and share renovation stories and tips.

Tickets for the tour will be sold for $10 per person on the day of the event.
The tour begins at the Seminole Heights Garden Center, 5800 Central Avenue (between Hillsborough and Sligh) where the home tour brochure and map can be obtained and attendees can hop a ride on one of four historic Tampa Trolleys to the homes.

For more information contact Christie Hess at (813) 237-8808. Sponsored in part by Eric Krause Design and First Home Realty.

On-line purchase of tickets will be available on the new, improved website coming to you soon.