A lakefront home designed by prominent Tampa Bay architect Harry “Bo” MacEwen is still on the market in North Tampa and recently got a price cut.
Located at 15612 Howell Park Ln., the home sits on Halfmoon Lake, and was completed in 1947. This is just one of many high-end homes built around the Tampa Bay area by the late MacEwen over his 50-year career. Arguably, MacEwen’s best known project is the Stovall House on Bayshore Boulevard, which is now a private club.
Like Stovall House, this particular MacEwen home is another example of MacEwen’s preference of classic style homes, and comes with 3,881-square-feet of living space, as well as four bedrooms and four bathrooms. It also features first and second level verandas, a six-car garage and a stand-alone mother-in-law suite.
The asking price late last year was $1.55 million, but it’s recently been cut to $1.35 million. The listing agent is Justin Morris of Smith & Associates.
MacEwen was also known for designing the now-demolished Walter Industries headquarters on Dale Mabry Highway, as well as downtown Tampa’s Northern Trust building, and the Exchange Bank, which is now known as the Franklin Exchange building (where Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s offices are located).
But homes were always his favorite projects. “Big projects – that’s where the money is,” MacEwen told the Tampa Tribune in an April, 1983 profile. “You don’t make a lot of money doing a residence, but they are the fun part. You get to meet the people you’re working for. When you’re doing a commercial project, you deal with a committee. When you do a house, usually the wife is the committee.”
MacEwen died in March of 2002 at the age of 90.
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