James designed a Carnegie Library, the Tampa Free Library, constructed in 1915-17, that was Tampa's main library until 1968. It includes a T-plan, masonry, brown and yellow brick atop a rusticated granite basement, and is topped by a barrel tile roof. It has been known as the Old Tampa Free Public Library, the Exceptional Children Education Center is now being used for Tampa's Business and Community Services Department. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[3]
James designed the R.O. Richards building (1923), also known as the Pythian Building, in Fort Myers, Florida in 1923 at 1615 Hendry Street for R. O. Richards, President of the state pharmacy board and a key figure in getting Connie Mack and the Philadelphia Athletics to come to Fort Myers in 1924. It housed the Royal Palm Pharmacy.[4]
James was also involved in the design of the Thom McAn (1927) on Franklin Street in Tampa.[5]
He designed the 2-story LeClaire Apartments (1926) at 3013-3015 San Carlos in a Masonry Vernacular style. The building has two mirror-image wings connected by a passage on the second floor and includes a stucco-covered arcade. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[6]
^Revitalizing Neighborhoods: Tampa Heights; Metro Jacksonville explores Tampa's first prominent residential suburb and neighborhood - one eerily similar to Jacksonville's Springfield: Tampa Heights. July 14, 2011 Metro Jacksonville
^swanson, dave. "Fort Myers Real Estate - MLS Homes Condos - For Sale".
^"Archives West: Richard Haviland Smythe papers, 1909-1965". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
^Hillsborough County April 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Historical Reports, Florida's History Through Its Places, Florida Department of Historical Resources
Further readingedit
Fred J. James, Architect: A Report by John Marsh, 1990, 52 pages
January 01, 1970
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