Historic Roser Park is an enchanting St. Petersburg neighborhood and, with its elegant site design and attention to landscaping detail, a first-rate example of development inspired by the City Beautiful Movement. The gently winding Booker Creek borders an area rich with character. Hex block sidewalks and brick-paved, tree-lined streets curve steeply and are flanked by a variety of lush tropical vegetation and ancient rusticated block-retaining walls; architectural styles range from Colonial Revival to Neoclassical and Tudor Revival, and several homes are built directly into the hillsides.
You can enjoy the beauty and tranquility at this weekend's second annual Historic Roser Park Art Festival, which takes place on Roser Park Drive and features arts, crafts, food and other vendors, and live entertainment. Proceeds benefit neighborhood preservation efforts and support children's arts programs offered by the T.W. Curtis Foundation. For information about Friday night's pre-festival gala ($35 per person, $60 per couple), visit www.roserpark.net or call 727-898-0358. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun., Nov. 12-13. Free admission. Located at the rear of All Children's Hospital, between Fourth Street S. and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard S., and Booker Creek and Ingleside Avenue (11th Avenue) S.
This article appears in Nov 9-15, 2005.