Responding to a tremendous growth in population between 1910 and 1940, Tallahassee/Leon County constructed a new set of structures to house public services. This website highlights those buildings the city and county hoped would create efficiency and evoke modernity: (from left to right, first row) the Leon County jail, the Caroline Brevard School, the city's power and light electric building; (from left to right, second row), and the Leon County Health Unit, the annex to the Leon County Court House, the city water works. The site discusses the mingling of history and architecture to learn how Tallahasseeans experienced and expressed a new modern age.
Tallahassee Moderne was sponsored by the Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation, The Florida Heritage Foundation, and the Historical Administration and Public History Program of the History Department at Florida State University.
This website was created with the aid of graduate students from the History Department at Florida State University: Amy Drewel Coale, James R. McAllister, Sarah Patterson, Kent Peacock, and Allyson Stanton, and College of Education graduate student Sally R. Watkins. Several are enrolled in the History Department's Historical Administration and Public History Program run by Prof. Jennifer Koslow.
Tallahassee Moderne was sponsored by the Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation, The Florida Heritage Foundation, and the Historical Administration and Public History Program of the History Department at Florida State University.
This website was created with the aid of graduate students from the History Department at Florida State University: Amy Drewel Coale, James R. McAllister, Sarah Patterson, Kent Peacock, and Allyson Stanton, and College of Education graduate student Sally R. Watkins. Several are enrolled in the History Department's Historical Administration and Public History Program run by Prof. Jennifer Koslow.
