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Creation Date
7-31-2011
Building Name
Old Hillsborough County High School
Description
Old Hillsborough County High School ,Tampa FL
The Old Hillsborough County High School', which later became Thomas Jefferson Junior High School, is a historic school building now known as the D.W. Waters Career Center in Tampa, Florida, United States. It is located at 2704 North Highland Avenue. On May 15, 2007, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, NRIS #07000423.
Built in the city's Tampa Heights neighborhood in 1911 at a cost of $60,000, the old Hillsborough County High School building served what was then the county's only high school. Architect William Potter designed the three story masonry block building as a closed rectangle with an open center.
Today the historic building continues its educational use as the home of D.W. Waters Career Center, a Hillsborough County Public Schools center for 11th grade and 12th grade students which focuses on occupational training. It benefited from a major restoration in 2003.
Latitude, Longitude
27.96666667, -82.45000000
Recommended Citation
Taylor, George Lansing Jr., "Old Hillsborough County High School, Tampa, FL" (2011). George Lansing Taylor Collection Main Gallery. 3852.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/3852
