Everything that was here
- 1933–present · still open
University of TampaSchool
Tampa Bay Junior College moved into the closed hotel in August 1933 and grew into the University of Tampa.
See the map in 1934 → - 1891–1930
Tampa Bay Hotel (Plant Hall)Hotel
Henry Plant's $3 million hotel had six minarets, a Rough Rider in residence, and a Depression-era shutdown that led to a college.
See the map in 1892 →
Nearby history
Valencia Garden
811 W Kennedy Blvd · 420 m away
Manuel Beiro's Spanish restaurant ran 82 years, survived a 1966 fire and closed when the University of Tampa bought the
Tampa Tribune Building (Parker Street plant)
202 S Parker St · 452 m away
The Tribune moved here in 1975, lost its paper to the Tampa Bay Times in 2016, and the riverfront plant became 400 apart
Curtis Hixon Hall
600 Ashley Dr · 463 m away
Tampa's riverfront arena hosted Elvis, Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead before it was torn down in 1993.
Palladium Ballroom
205 W Cass St · 472 m away
A downtown dance hall that opened with a New Year's Eve party in 1957 and was gone by 1965, the year Curtis Hixon Hall o
Wallace Stovall Tampa Tribune Building (GTE Building)
601 N Ashley Dr · 472 m away
A 1920s brick building built for the Tribune's publisher, later a GTE building with a 1970s stucco skin, came down in Ma
Victory Theatre / Palace Theatre
700 N Tampa St · 573 m away
A vaudeville house that became the only Cinerama theater within 500 miles and ran The Sound of Music for a year and five
Know something about University of Tampa? An old photo, a date, a memory of what stood here before?
Add it on the map