Studebaker Building (St. Petersburg, Florida)

United States historic place


Studebaker Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


Show map of FloridaShow map of the United States
Location	St. Petersburg, Florida
Coordinates	27°45′49″N 82°38′18″W / 27.76361°N 82.63833°W / 27.76361; -82.63833
Architectural style	Tudor Revival
NRHP reference No.	85001485
Added to NRHP	July 5, 1985

The Studebaker Building (now home to the USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center) is a historic site in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is located at 600 4th Street South. On July 5, 1985, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Built in 1925, the Studebaker Building is historically significant for its association with the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s and the relationship of the automobile industry and suburbanization. The building symbolizes the importance of the Studebaker automobile within that industry in the 1920s, particularly the Peninsular Motor Company of southwest Florida, the fourth largest Studebaker dealer in volume in the country by 1925. When the building opened, the company was the fourth largest Studebaker dealer in the world. The company employed 300 people, with 56 working in St. Petersburg's showroom. However, by 1926 the Peninsular Motor Company went bankrupt as a result of the collapse of the boom, and the Studebaker Building was closed.

References

"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
"St. Petersburg Historic Landmarks". www.stpete.org. Archived from the original on 2001-11-06.

External links

v t e Studebaker
Vehicles Category
Cars	Avanti Big Six Champion Commander Conestoga Cruiser Daytona Dictator Electric car Flight Hawk Gran Turismo Hawk Golden Hawk Hawk Power Hawk Silver Hawk Sky Hawk Land Cruiser Lark Light Four Light Six President Scotsman Special Six Speedster Standard Six Starlight Wagonaire
Trucks	Champ Coupe Express E-series truck J-series truck K-series truck M-series truck M29 Weasel 2R/3R trucks Scotsman Transtar US6 truck
History	Studebaker Studebaker-Packard Corporation Studebaker Canada Studebaker National Museum Studebaker Proving Grounds
Associated tradenames	Automatic Drive Gravely Tractor Hill-holder Starlight (body type) STP
Affiliated automotive brands	Clipper E-M-F Automobiles Erskine Everitt Excalibur Flanders Automobile Company Mercedes-Benz (1958–1966) Packard Packard Clipper Pierce-Arrow Rockne SPA Truck Company Studebaker-Garford Studebaker-Packard Hawk series Tincher
People	Clement Studebaker John Studebaker Frederick Samuel Fish Walter Flanders Albert Russel Erskine Harold Sines Vance Paul G Hoffman Gordon Grundy Raymond Loewy Helen Dryden Virgil Exner Delmar "Barney" Roos James J. Nance Sherwood Egbert Brooks Stevens

v t e U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Florida
Lists by county	Alachua Baker Bay Bradford Brevard Broward Calhoun Charlotte Citrus Clay Collier Columbia DeSoto Dixie Duval Escambia Flagler Franklin Gadsden Gilchrist Glades Gulf Hamilton Hardee Hendry Hernando Highlands Hillsborough Holmes Indian River Jackson Jefferson Lake Lee Leon Levy Liberty Madison Manatee Marion Martin Miami-Dade Monroe Nassau Okaloosa Okeechobee Orange Osceola Palm Beach Pasco Pinellas Polk Putnam Santa Rosa Sarasota Seminole St. Johns St. Lucie Sumter Suwannee Taylor Union Volusia Wakulla Walton Washington
Lists by city	Miami Tampa
Other lists	Black Public Schools Bridges Multiple Property Submissions National Historic Landmarks Woman's clubhouses
Keeper of the Register History of the National Register of Historic Places Property types Historic district Contributing property

This article about a property in Pinellas County, Florida on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: