hillsborough needs new courthouse
TBHC65 years ago…
July 7, 1941 – Architect M. Leo Elliott tells Hillsborough county commissioners that a new courthouse to care for the county’s present needs would cost close to $1 million ($13 million in today’s dollars). He also recommended that the county tear down the 50-year old building and erect a modern courthouse of four or five stories of reinforced concrete. “There would be very little salvage value to the present building,” Elliott said.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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July 7th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Shame the architect couldn’t have produced a more attractive building, or perhaps echoed the look of the former courthouse, which was quite a thing to behold.