" While work continues on our highest -- house in Bartlett park I thought we'd take walk around the neighborhood and give you better sense of what Saint Petersburg is like. We're just north of our site in rows -- often called the neighborhood that that cookie built. Charles -- came down here in the teens early part of the twentieth century after selling his fig Newton cookie company to the national biscuit company. During the 1920s. As it was being built up it was considered one of the most attractive residential developments in all of Florida. And a lot of the original craftsman style bungalows and cottages remain today shaded by royal palms and old live oaks. The brick streets follow the curves of Booker creek and you can still see they're made of Augusta brick. The sidewalks have their original hex block and the creek banks are held back by concrete levees and rusticated block retaining walls. You can see that mr. rose are really made an effort to civilize what was then jungle. And evidently he succeeded in 1916. Mayor James Bradshaw built a house here for his family. A very stately colonial revival style home in cast concrete. It's one of a lot of St. Pete houses that look like they were inspired by more northern architecture and it's still the jewel of shingle side having him. To the east of Rosa -- the old southeast neighborhood was developed a little later and prides itself on its frontage on Tampa Bay in lasting park. In 1924. Judge Robert lasting donated this land to the city with the proviso that it be used as a public park. Since the rest of the land was developed for housing in the 1950s. It's been a place where everyone can enjoy fishing and recreation in a purely residential area. And that's significant since just north of here the high rises and busy streets of downtown Saint Petersburg sit right on the -- You've got the museum of Salvador -- it. First tourist Mecca on the pier big business and colorful little restaurants all grouped along the neatly laid out city grid. In north downtown you can still see the footprints of the city's first developers as they bought up the orange groves and built around mirror lake. Which was the city's first source of drinking water and is still its public water supply. During the building boom just after 1900. Edward Tomlinson built the unique and very ornate open air post office where you can actually stand on the sidewalk and get your mail. As well as St. Peter's episcopal church down the block. Now on the national register of historic buildings the coliseum opened in 1924. And has hosted concerts sock hops and ballroom dancing ever since. Moving north again from here you get to crescent lake park and into the quiet residential areas of the historical northeast neighborhood. This is where you really start to get a variety of styles coming in. As people moved here from all over the country during the early twentieth century they brought their own ideas of a dream house with them. These streets are lined with modest to medium sized bungalows Mediterranean style homes prairie style cottages to story Dutch colonials and even some federal revival variations on the Florida theme. And of course you still see some true Florida crackers looking right at home among the banana palms. This area was completely built out by the 1950s and sixty's so the character of the neighborhood has really been well preserved. This north shore neighborhood has its own public park along Tampa Bay. Again it was donated to the city by developers to preserve public access to the beach and waterside recreation and of course to keep it looking nice. Even in the early twentieth century developers knew the value of that well maintained open public land and what it added to property around it. The properties along north shore park are indeed quite valuable. And again they come in all shapes and sizes they're really elegant pots those Mediterranean villas grand plantations with columns and enormous bang entries and even some truly unique and well maintained prairie style homes as you work your way up to snell isle bridge over coffee pot by U."

" When C Perry snell began his efforts to develop his land here and -- snell isle in 1911. He had in mind a very upscale residential area where homeowners could feel they had really made it. He even went to Europe to buy statues and shipped them back to give the development ambience evidently his buyers saw his vision true."