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Expo Hall is an indoor arena located at the Florida State Fairgrounds in East Lake-Orient Park, Florida. It is used primarily as an exhibition hall during the Florida State Fair , but has also hosted concerts and sporting events.
Florida vernacular architecture at the Cracker Country museum on the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Florida; Capt. Francis A. Hendry House in LaBelle, Florida; Stephens House at the Manatee Village Historical Park, Bradenton, Florida; Old Mayo Free Press Building, the Old Lafayette County Courthouse and House of the Seven Gables in Mayo ...
Monitor roof: A roof with a monitor; 'a raised structure running part or all of the way along the ridge of a double-pitched roof, with its own roof running parallel with the main roof.' Butterfly roof (V-roof, [8] London roof [9]): A V-shaped roof resembling an open book. A kink separates the roof into two parts running towards each other at an ...
British engineer and architect William Fairbairn is sometimes credited with the first designs for what he termed the shed principle possibly as early as 1827. In his "Treatise on Mills and Millwork", of 1863, Fairbairn stated that, "Contemporaneous with the architectural improvements in mills [from 1827], the shed principle lighted from the roof, or the "saw-tooth" system, came into operation.
The Florida State Fairgrounds in East Lake-Orient Park, Florida, hosts the annual Florida State Fair and various other events. [1] Covering 355 acres (1.44 km 2 ), it features a variety of buildings.
Dramatic video and photos detail the aftermath of Hurricane Milton’s destruction on the Tampa Bay Rays’ Tropicana Field.. The roof of the baseball stadium, which is located in St. Petersburg ...
Florida State Fair in 2013. In 1904, the South Florida Fair Association was formed and plans for a new exhibition were proposed. The fair was founded as the South Florida Fair in downtown Tampa and renamed the Mid-Winter Festival a few years later. The name finally changed to the present Florida State Fair in 1915. [7]
Cracker Country is a living history museum of rural Florida, and Florida Cracker culture which was established in 1978 by Mildred and Doyle Carlton Jr. [1] Cracker Country features thirteen original buildings dating from 1870 to 1912 and is set in 1898. [1]