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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 30, 2008

Back in the 1920s, Temple Terrace Estates was a plush winter retreat for the rich and famous, as well as home to more regular joes with incomes a notch or two above the norm.

Unlike its distant neighbor, Tampa, the community was built on gently rolling acreage. It also had the scenic Hillsborough River and grand old oaks to cool residents playing on its very own golf course. (It was one of the nation's first golf course communities!)
Temple Terrace hasn't changed all that much, in part because residents are intent on preserving its original Mediterranean revival architecture. Throughout the decades, other styles were added, including midcentury modern in the 1950s.

See samples of both homes Saturday during the Temple Terrace Holiday Home tour from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Four homes in the Mediterranean revival style, including the one pictured on Willowick Avenue, and four midcentury modern homes will be open. Trolleys will ferry visitors among the homes. Admission is $15; the tour begins at Florida College Student Center, 119 N. Glen Arven Ave. (north on Glen Arven from Bullard Parkway).

The event is sponsored by the Temple Terrace Preservation Society, a nonprofit group that uses the proceeds for community projects. Call (813) 985-3594 or go to www.temple

terracepreservation.com for information.

Penny Carnathan

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