Construction Dates for Hyde Park Houses

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.

• 1906-02-13 West Hyde Park Hendry and Knights Subdivision (Our first subdivision. Notice Bay Shore Boulevard, "A" Street and the numbered streets)
  
• 1910-01-08 Morrison Grove Subdivision (Notice the interchange of Swann and Boulevard)
• 1910-05-18 Morrison Grove Subdivision (The small map at the top. To make room for the house at 801 Delaware)
• 1910-05-30 Morrison Grove Subdivision
• 1910-06-17 West Hyde Park Revised
• 1911-06-03 Morrison Grove Subdivision Revised (Final Version)
• 1911-06-03 West Hyde Park (Adds the strip between Willow and Orleans and along Bayshore between Willow and Dakota)
• 1915-11-13 Richardson Place (Note that Hampton St. is now Richardson Place between Dakota and Rome)

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.  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 fists 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.

• 1915 map from Willow East
• 1915 map from Willow West
• 1922 map from Willow East
• 1922 map from Willow West
• Key to the Sanborn Maps
• 1915 and 1922 Sanborn maps overlaid on the current map.  This application requires that the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in be installed in your browser.  It is a free download from Microsoft and you will be prompted to do the download if needed.

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.

http://www.oldhydeparkfl.org/BurgertHydePark

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