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Malachi Leo Elliott

M. Leo Elliott was an architect known for his work in Tampa, Temple Terrace and Sarasota, Florida. His designs include the public buildings and first eight houses in the City of Temple Terrace, Florida (1921), Ybor City's Centro Asturiano de Tampa, Old Tampa City Hall, Osprey School, two buildings that were part of Florida College and the original Temple Terrace Estates, Masonic Temple No. 25 (1928), the original 1926 Sarasota High School and Historic Spanish Point. Several of the properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Background
Elliott was born in Woodstock, New York, and attended Cooper Union. He trained with Welch, Smith & Provost in New York City and helped design buildings for the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 in Norfolk, Virginia. Elliott wrote in his own obituary that he was born April 4, 1886, in the Catskill Mountains of Woodstock, New York, and moved to New York City when he was 15. In the city he worked as an office clerk for an architectural firm. He eventually moved to Norfolk, Virginia where he designed buildings for the Jamestown Exposition. After the expo he moved to Tampa. Elliott retired in 1954 and died in 1967. Granddaughter Lynn Elliott Rydene is an interior designer in Tampa. ==City of Temple Terrace==
City of Temple Terrace
In 1922, Elliott designed the original Temple Terrace Country Club building (now part of Florida College's campus known as Sutton Hall), the Florida College Student Center (originally the Club Morocco Nightclub and Casino), Real Estate Office (today the Temple Terrace Community Church), Chauffeurs Lodge and Garage, Greenskeepers House, Caddie Building, Spring House, Temple Terrace Grocery, Temple Terrace Service Station, Entry Tower gates, and the first eight villa residences for the original developers. All were designed in the Mediterranean Revival/Mission/Moorish architectural styles. The Temple Terrace Preservation Society has made efforts to preserve all of these through the creation of a Certified Local Government The Club Morocco was the hottest nightclub on the west coast of Florida in the 1920s. It was part of the original Temple Terrace Estates, one of the first Mediterranean Revival golf course planned communities in the United States (1921). According to the 1988 Temple Terrace Historic Resources Survey, both buildings are eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. In the 1930s, after the Florida economic collapse of 1926, the property and its buildings were acquired by the Florida Bible Institute from the City of Temple Terrace, and were then sold to the founders of Florida College. ==Work==
Work
Tampa City Hall (1915) at 315 John F. Kennedy Blvd (Bonfoey and Elliott) A 3-story building with an 8-story tower. Includes doric columns, balustrade, and terra-cotta detailing. Perhaps the finest of the architect M. Leo Elliott's commercial-municipal structures. National Register listed in 1974. • Henry Leiman House (1916) Tampa, Florida (Bonfoey & Elliott) • DeSoto County Courthouse (Florida) (Bonfoey & Elliott) • Centro Asturiano de Tampa (1914) (Bonfoey & Elliot) • L'Unione Italiana (Italian Club) (1917), Tampa (Bonfoey & Elliott) • Sutton Hall (originally Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club) (1922) ==Gallery==
Gallery
OldTampaCityHall01.jpg|Tampa City Hall Tampa Leiman House04.jpg|Leiman House Tampa Centro Asturiano01.jpg|right|El Centro Asturiano Tampa Circulo Cubano01.jpg|right|Circulo Cubano (Cuban Club) Italian Club Ybor.jpg|L'Unione Italiana (The Italian Club) in Ybor Masonic25Tampa06.jpg|right|Masonic Temple No. 25 ==See also==
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