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The Strand at Clearwater | Photo by JB, 2017

The Strand at Clearwater

Completed in 1972, this 16-story former office building was first known as the 1100 Building located just on the outskirts of downtown Clearwater. Espacio USA, an arm of the wealthy Spanish real...

Dragon Point Mansion | Photo © 2013 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Dragon Point Mansion

  Rowers pass by Annie the Dragon, date unknown Located on Merritt Island, the Dragon Point Mansion was built in 1961. The estate featured three fireplaces, wraparound cedar decks, teak parquet...

Old Amazon Hose and Rubber Co. Warehouse | Photo © 2012 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Old Amazon Hose and Rubber Co. Warehouse

According to the company website: “Rubber hoses made back in the early 1900s were comprised of pure gum rubber tapped from the Amazonian trees, which often grow more than 100 feet high. The...

Oriole Cemetery | Photo © 2017 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Oriole Cemetery

Oriole Cemetery is the third oldest cemetery in Hernando County and was once part of the town of Oriole, a small mining settlement located in what is now the Withlacoochee State Forest. The town was...

Noralyn Phosphate Mine | Photo © 2012 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Noralyn Phosphate Mine

A Brief History of Phosphate Mining in Florida Noralyn Mine is a phosphate mine located in the Bone Vallery region of Florida. The Hawthorn Foundation is a layer of clay and limestone deposited...

St. Petersburg Historic YMCA | Photo © 2014 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

St. Petersburg YMCA Building

St. Petersburg YMCA Building The St. Petersburg chapter of the YMCA was organized in June 1920. The YMCA building located downtown was constructed in 1927 with the help of $550,000 in community...

Balbin Brothers Cigar Factory | Photo © 2016 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Balbin Brothers Cigar Factory

Balbin Bros. Cigar Factory The story of West Tampa’s former Balbin Brothers Cigar Factory dates back to 1904 when the three-story brick Romanesque Revival style building was built for the...

Xanadu | Photo © 2004 Nolan Pelletier

Xanadu: Home of the Future

Photo Credit: William Ackel, 1994 The Xanadu house was one of a series of experimental homes marketed as the “home of the future” built to showcase examples of computers and automation in...

Arcade Machine Barnhouse | Photo © 2014 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Arcade Machine Barnhouse

Mortal Kombat and Ms. Pac-Man cabinets, some of the popular arcade games of the time The first arcade games were the old midway of the 1920s which included shooting galleries, ball-toss games, and...

Fenway Hotel | Photo © 2012 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Fenway Hotel

Fenway Hotel Construction on the Fenway Hotel began in 1924, but the project stalled due to financial problems. It wasn’t until Clearwater developer, George H. Bowles, decided to invest in the...

Port Malabar Bowling Center | Photo © 2014 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Port Malabar Bowling Center

Originally known as Port Malabar Lanes, the 24 lane bowling alley opened in 1972 at 2170 Port Malabar Blvd NE, Palm Bay, Florida. At the time, it was Palm Bay’s only bowling center until the...

Pheil Hotel | Photo © 2016 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Pheil Hotel

Abram Camp Pheil Abram Camp Pheil was born in Pennsylvania but settled in Citrus County, Florida in 1884, before relocating to St. Petersburg in 1894. He worked at a sawmill earning $1 a day. With...

New Smyrna Old Sugar Mill Ruins | Photo © 2014 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

New Smyrna Old Sugar Mill Ruins

The remains of the Cruger-dePeyster sugar mill which was destroyed in the 1830s. Tensions had been growing between the Seminoles, settlers and the U.S. Government. The government’s decision to...

Turnbull Ruins | Photo © 2014 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Turnbull Ruins

Jane Sheldon’s children and hotel guests were just sitting for a midday meal at her “House on the Hill”, the largest hotel south of St. Augustine built upon a coquina foundation of a former...

Old Melbourne High School | Photo © 2015 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Melbourne High School

Melbourne High School The old Henegar High School building was built in 1919 and the first high school graduating class graduated on May 21, 1921, with 13 students. At that time, there were no paved...

Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys | Photo © 2018 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys

Founding of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was first organized under an 1897 act of the legislature and began operations on the Marianna campus on January...

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