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Photograph of Sunset Hotel
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sunset Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

“The Sunset Hotel is a historic hotel located at 7401 Central Avenue in St. Designed by noted local architect George Feltham and completed in 1915, it exemplifies the Mission and Mediterranean Revival architectural styles popular during St.”

Wikipedia article Sunset Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 7401 Central Ave., St. Petersburg, 33707
  • When was it listed? November 2014
  • Category. building
  • Census division. St. Petersburg
  • National Register reference number. 14000952 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1921 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Sunset Hotel, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Sunset Hotel, surveyed 1921

Fires near this property

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sunset Hotel between 1992 and 2006, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 26TH STREET
29 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2004Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEALMAN

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
John & Florence McKeage Houseunder 500 feet2013
Casa Coe da Sol0.5 miles1980
Maurice and Thelma Rothman House1.0 miles2013
Casa De Muchas Flores1.3 miles1985
Gulfport Casino3.1 miles2014
Bay Pines Veterans Administration Home and Hospital Historic District3.4 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000952 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pinellas CountyAll 72 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.