Discovering the downtown Tampa you didn't know

In preparation of APA Florida's 2016 Annual Conference and in honor of the good work being achieved by URBN Tampa Bay (United Residents for Better Neighborhoods), here's a look at Tampa's urban core during the 20th century!

13. The arcade of Ybor City’s Cherokee Club at 1318 9th Avenue. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

14. Children working in a Tampa Cigar Box Factory on January 28, 1909. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

15. The Tampa Bay Hotel, now the University of Tampa. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

16. A Tampa messenger boy on March 1933. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

17. A view of downtown looking south from the top of the Citizens Bank Building in 1916. Courtesy of the W. A. Fishbuagh - Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

18. A view of downtown looking northeast from the top of the Citizens Bank Building in 1913. Courtesy of the W. A. Fishbuagh - Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

19. Tampa’s City Hall Building was completed in 1915. It was the city’s tallest until the 1926 completion of the Floridian Hotel. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

20. A look inside the Cuesta Rey Cigar Factory during the 1920s. (State Archives of Florida)

21. The U.S. Custom House in 1905. After years of abandonment, this building was recently restored into a luxury boutique hotel called Le Méridien Tampa. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

22. Looking north on Florida Avenue in 1955. (State Archives of Florida)

23. The intersection of Franklin and Polk Streets in 1972. (State Archives of Florida)

24. Two buildings no longer with us. The Hotel Tampa Terrace (left) and First National Bank in 1968. Hotel Tampa Terrace was demolished and replaced with a parking lot. A sister Terrace Hotel remains in nearby downtown Lakeland. The First National Bank was demolished and replaced with Gaslight Park in the early 1990s. (State Archives of Florida)