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View showing the Knott House at 301 E. Park Ave. during the Tallahassee May Festival proceedings.
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N2008- 5, Photographic collection, ca 1962-1974; Box 24a
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Rites
Practices
Celebrations--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Customs
Customs, Calendar
Houses--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Manners and customs
Holidays
Recreation--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Spring festivals--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Spring--Folklore
May celebrations--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
May Day
Historic buildings--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Architecture--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Architecture, Colonial
Colonial revival (Architecture)
Dwellings--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
May (Month)--Folklore
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Built 1839-42 for Catherine Gamble, bride of Thomas Holmes Hagner, U.S. minister to the court of King George. The east end of the block was taken up with formal gardens that were said to be the site of the first Japonica tree in Florida (brought from England to Mrs. Hagner's home in Virginia). Dr. George W. Betton bought the property in 1880 and altered it in 1885. Later it was the home of the Carters, Shacklefords, and Knotts. In 1928 W.V. Knott, State Treasurer of Florida, altered the front by removing the one-story porch and replacing it with the two-story portico and columns. Later the house was given to the Department of State and turned into the Knott House Museum.
Richard Parks began working at Evon Streetman Photography in Tallahassee ca. 1963. Streetman later sold the business and studio to Parks when she moved to Gainesville about 1965. The studio was renamed Richard Parks Photography.
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Chicago Manual of Style
Parks, Richard. View showing the Knott House at 301 E. Park Ave. during the Tallahassee May Festival proceedings. 1967. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/46778>, accessed 22 June 2026.
MLA
Parks, Richard. View showing the Knott House at 301 E. Park Ave. during the Tallahassee May Festival proceedings. 1967. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/46778>
AP Style Photo Citation
(State Archives of Florida/Parks)
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