Celebrate the Bungalow - 2010 Hyde Park Home Tour

Historic Hyde Park Home Tour taking place March 6. See article's entire photo gallery here.

HYDE PARK – Many residents of historic Hyde Park will open their doors for the neighborhood’s 8th Annual Home Tour, Saturday, March 6, 2010. The tour will feature more than a dozen private homes, representing numerous styles and time periods, from historic to new construction.

Included on the tour will be residences along Tampa’s famous Bungalow Terrace, a mini-subdivision of 19 houses with front porches facing each other across a sidewalk (i.e., not a road, like usual), as well as Tampa’s only example of the Bungalow Court—a popular mode of construction in California circa 1909–1930.

“Bungalow Court will highlight gracious living on a small scale,” notes the tour’s co-chair, Tami Kirchner. “This calls for innovation and—in the case of the homes we’ll tour—illustrates a true sense of style.”

In contrast, the large, stunning, newly constructed Bayshore mansion of Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Stein is also a tour stop.

The Historic Hyde Park Home Tour is taking place in conjunction with a March exhibit at the Tampa Bay History Center exhibit, titled “The Bungalow,” along with a feature film documentary that provides an overview of Tampa’s bungalows (and their social and cultural context).

For Home Tour information, contact Tami at the Historic Hyde Park Neighborhood Association: (813) 625-4141 or HHPNAhometour@tampabay.rr.com