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Photograph of Mirror Lake Library
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Petersburg Public Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

“The Mirror Lake Community Library is a Carnegie library built in 1915 in Beaux-Arts style. It was one of ten Florida Carnegie libraries to receive grants awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1917.”

Wikipedia article Mirror Lake Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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. 280 Fifth St. N, St. Petersburg, 33701
  • When was it listed? June 1986
  • Category. building
  • Census division. St. Petersburg
  • Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
  • National Register reference number. 86001259 - 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 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 St. Petersburg Public Library, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering St. Petersburg Public Library, surveyed 1921

Fires near this property

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of St. Petersburg Public Library between 1997 and 2006, burning about 119 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
14 September 1997Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 26TH STREET
9 May 2000Equipment and vehicle use100 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 April 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 April 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2004Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEALMAN

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Petersburg Public Library: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lease No. 1788Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
St. Petersburg Lawn Bowling Clubunder 500 feet1980
Veillard Houseunder 500 feet1982
Domestic Science and Manual Training School0.1 miles1999
First Methodist Church of St. Petersburg0.2 miles1990
Downtown St. Petersburg Historic District0.2 miles2004
Boone House0.2 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001259 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.