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Walking Tours
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Join PTB board member Maria Erickson for a stroll along the waterfront!
Tour participants will learn about the waterfront's importance to the city's efforts to promote itself as the embodiment of the Florida dream and hear stories about the civic visionaries who transformed a working waterfront into one of the country's largest waterfront park systems.
The waterfront is where baseball’s spring training got its start, was the 1914 home to the world’s first airline, the St. Petersburg - Tampa Airboat Co., and the location for the 'Burg's historic Fountain of Youth - Try the fountain during the tour and you'll feel younger by tour's end!
Tour meets at the Fountain of Youth, 4th Ave S & 1st St S, in front of the Mahaffey Theater.
Walking tours are $10 for PTB members or $20 for any non-members. Reserve your spot online. Advance registration is required.
Historic Mirror Lake Design Week Walking Tour
Sunday April 13, 2025
Tour St. Petersburg's newest Local Historic District, Mirror Lake, as part of this special Design Week event.
Designated as a LHD at the end of 2024 after years of hard work by Mirror Lake residents and Preserve the 'Burg board members and volunteers, Mirror Lake and its surrounding neighborhood are a special part of the 'Burg.
While it is just blocks from Central Avenue, the area has its own sense of place, with an array of historic buildings including the 1916 Carnegie Library, and the 1924 St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club among many others.
The area still retains much of its historic integrity and is a part of the Downtown National Register Historic District in addition to its new distinction as a local district.
This tour, led by Preserve the 'Burg Executive Director, Manny Leto, and PTB Board Member Emily Elwyn, will focus on the historical development of Mirror Lake and what the recently created Local Historic District overlay means for future development.
We will begin at and include a tour of the Unitarian Universalist Church.
Attendance is limited; advance registration required.
This tour is part of Tampa Bay Design Week.
Click HERE for a full program schedule
Join Preserve the Burg and the Historic Kenwood Neighborhood Association on a tour of St. Pete's first suburb.
The approximately two-hour tour starts at 10 am at the Craftsman House, 2955 Central Avenue, an American crafts gallery and cafe that was the original model home for Kenwood.
Upon leaving the gallery, tour goers will be led on a pleasant stroll through the neighborhood that has one of the largest concentrations of bungalow homes in the country.
The tour will focus on the history of the neighborhood, its revitalization and current activities & events.
The tour will end in the Grand Central District on Central Ave, a great area for lunch at one of St. Pete’s many small local businesses.
Tickets are $10 for PTB & HKNA members or $20 for any non-members. Reserve your spot online. Advance registration is required.
PTB and Historic Kenwood hosts a tour every 3rd Saturday of the month.
In what has become a Preservation Month tradition, please join Preserve the 'Burg Executive Director, Manny Leto, for a special road trip to Tampa's Ybor City.
Founded in 1886, Ybor City is one of the oldest urban neighborhoods on Florida's Gulf Coast. Once home to thousands of immigrant cigar workers who created a "city within a city," Ybor was a multi-lingual, multi-ethnic enclave that defined Tampa's urban development, economy, and politics in the early 20th century.
Today, Ybor City is both a Local and National Historic District, home to some of the bay area's most most iconic architecture, from cigar factories and ornately-designed immigrant social clubs to "shotgun" cottages and updated commercial storefronts.
A 3rd-generation Tampa native, Manny has been involved in the Ybor City community for more than 20 years as a preservation advocate, museum professional and resident. Don't miss this "insider's" look at a truly one-of-a-kind historic neighborhood with Preserve the 'Burg!
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