During my exploration of downtown Tampa last weekend I found a couple of old buildings that I had not really noticed before. My favorite was the Carriage Repository. It is an old building that is definitely in a state of disrepair and has ivy growing on the side. You can just make out the text of Carriage Repository and Tampa Harness and Wagon Company. The only information that I could find online states that is was built in 1900 and I also found an old picture. The other was the Kress building. From Wikipedia “The S. H. Kress and Co. Building is a historic 1929 building in Tampa, Florida, United States. It was part of the S. H. Kress & Co. “five and dime” department store chain. On April 7, 1983, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Located at 811 N. Franklin Street, the building has a second fronting on Florida Avenue and is in the Renaissance Revival architectural style. G.E. McKay was the four story building’s architect, and it includes masonry, suspended bronze marquee, extensive use of terra-cotta ornamentation (on both its facades). ”

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