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This photo is dated from around 1900 and shows the Meldrim house on Reynolds Street.
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James Wynn Meldrim prospered in the Georgia lumber industry in the early 1900s. He moved his operations to South Florida and retired in Tampa at 35, but went back into business shortly after in Plant City, where he built his Reynolds Street home.
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In 1908, the current nave of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church was erected for $2,500. It was moved from Mahoney Street, near Wheeler Street, to Carey Street, at the foot of Mahoney Street, in 1953.
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The bricks in downtown are marked “Southern Clay MFG.” A search reveals that they were made by Southern Clay Manufacturing Company of Jersey City. Southern Clay bought the Tennessee Paving Brick Company, which sold its Robbins brickyard in 1902.
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James Wynn Meldrim built his home in 1910. In 1994, it became a bed and breakfast and was the sight of a number of events, weddings and celebrations before selling as a private residence once more.
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The home of Col. James Laurens Young was originally built where the SunTrust Bank now is on the corner of Evers and Reynolds streets. Young was a veteran of the Confederacy. In 1869 he graduated from the law department at the University of Mississippi.
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This home on Franklin Street is part of the Downtown Residential District on the National Register of Historic Places.
The downtown residential district contains homes from circa 1887 to circa 1948. Bungalows and wood frame vernacular structures comprise 78% of the single-family dwellings in the district. Of the 243 buildings in the district, 185 contribute to its historic character, while 56 buildings are noncontributing. Noncontributing buildings include those that were constructed after 1948 and those constructed before 1948 that have been so severely altered as to lose their historic architectural integrity.
Added to register: 1998
Address: Roads include North Drane, Thomas, West Tever, Franklin and Carey streets and those in between
Architectural style: Wood frame and masonry vernacular, bungalows, Folk Victorian and Colonial Revival
Additional: This district also includes St. Peter’s Episcopal Church as well as homes.
