This old beauty showed up on a Face Book group about historic Tampa and I was delighted to see it. Back in the Fifties, my orphaned first cousins Ken and Logan lived there with their maternal grandmother Lula Logan-later Lula Broneer when she married an archaeologist.
I visited my cousins now and then. They had a pool table and a pinball machine in the front parlor, and Logan did his best to show me the elements of pool and pinball.
I wish I'd paid more attention to that amazing house. I mainly remember being awestruck at the two outdoor stairs. It had once been a place of some magnificence--do I remember a defunct fountain in the front yard?
Looking at this picture, I wonderful if it began as a straightforward two-story house and then acquired those two spectacular wings, fore and aft.
I'm pretty sure it's given way now to a high rise. The large lot on the Bayshore would have been irresistible to a developer.
I kinda don't even want to know.
