View of the Hays-Hood House at 906 E. Park Avenue - Tallahassee, Florida

Title

• View of the Hays-Hood House at 906 E. Park Avenue - Tallahassee, Florida

Image Number

• PR30589

Year

• 2008

Date Note

• Photographed in March 2008.

Series Title

• General: Print collections
• Specific: Print collections

General Note

• Accompanying note: "The Hays Hood House is one of Tallahassee's few remaining examples of Queen Anne architecture. The style, popular in the 1880s and 1890s, is characterized by turrets, towers and elaborate decorative woodwork that lead some to call them 'gingerbread houses.' Jesse Hays, who helped start Tallahassee's first phone company, had the house built in 1910, using a pattern from a house-pattern book. During World War II, the home was converted into apartments and Hays moved into an adjoining cottage. In 1949, Hays sold the house to Tallahassee insurance agent Buck Hood and his wife, Rebecca, who converted it back to a single family home. In 2004, the widowed Rebecca Hood sold the house to the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, which restored the house as its new headquarters."

Biography Note

• Located in Magnolia Heights subdivision.

Creator

• Florida Trust for Historic Preservation.

Physical Description

• 1 digital image - col.

Subject Term

• Historic preservation--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
• Dwellings--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
• Queen Anne revival (Architecture)
• Architecture, Queen Anne
• Architecture, Victorian
• Architecture, Modern--19th century
• Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
• Houses--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
• Architecture--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee

Geographic Term

• Tallahassee (Fla.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
• Leon County (Fla.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
• 906 East Park Avenue (Tallahassee, Fla.)

Personal Subject

• Hays, Jesse Lazear, 1857-1950--Homes and haunts.
• Hood family (Tallahassee, Fla.)--Homes and haunts.

Subject Corporate

• Hays-Hood House (Tallahassee, Fla.)
• Florida Trust for Historic Preservation.

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