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Photograph of Don CeSar
Photograph by porkfork6 from Saint Petersburg, FL, USA, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Don Ce Sar Hotel

Built in 1928 (Mediterranean Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

“Developed by Thomas Rowe and opened in 1928, it gained renown as the Gulf playground for America's pampered rich at the height of the Jazz Age. The Don CeSar is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.”

Wikipedia article The Don CeSar, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1928, Mediterranean Revival architecture, by Henry H. Dupont.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. 3400 Gulf Blvd., St. Petersburg Beach, 33706
  • When was it listed? April 1975
  • Category. building
  • Census division. St. Pete Beach
  • When was it built? 1928
  • Architectural style. Mediterranean Revival architecture, Moorish Revival architecture
  • Architect. Henry H. Dupont
  • National Register reference number. 75000563 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1921 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Don Ce Sar Hotel, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Don Ce Sar Hotel, surveyed 1921

Fires near this property

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Don Ce Sar Hotel in 2006, burning about 3 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

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

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Maps showing this location

11 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
Pass-A-Grille Historic District (Boundary Increase)0.9 miles2003
Pass-a-Grille Historic District1.4 miles1989
Gulfport Casino2.7 miles2014
John & Florence McKeage House4.2 miles2013
Sunset Hotel4.3 miles2014
Casa Coe da Sol4.8 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000563 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.