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LOCATION
Address: 823 Park Street North
City: St. Petersburg
State: Florida
Zip Code: 33710
Nation: United States

 

STATUS
Type: Residential
Status: Demolished

TECHNICAL DATA
Date(s): 1951
Site Area: 
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Floors (Above Ground): 2
Building Cost:

PROFESSIONAL TEAM
Client: C. Richard Leavengood and Pauline M. Leavengood
Architect: Ralph S. Twitchell
Associate Architect: Paul M. Rudolph
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SUPPLIERS
Contractor:
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Leavengood Residence

  • The project scope is to design a residence for Charles Richard Leavengood (1917-1993) and his wife Pauline Moeller Leavengood (1920-1996). Mr. Leavengood is a judge for the sixth judicial circuit.

  • The weight of the house is cantilevered through a series lofty columns, as if hovering above the ground.

  • There is a two-story, screened patio between the two modular block spaces, connected to multiple openings.

  • It has bamboo blinds and glass screens that provides varying level of transparency.

  • Like the Deeds Residence, it is composed of horizontal roof volumes, shielded by wooden framing, it has an interior screened patio and uses precise craft. Similar concepts from other projects have been composed into this plan to create a new vibrant composition.

  • The residence has been demolished.

DRAWINGS - Design Drawings / Renderings

DRAWINGS - Construction Drawings

DRAWINGS - Shop Drawings

PHOTOS - Project Model

PHOTOS - During Construction

PHOTOS - Completed Project

PHOTOS - Current Conditions

LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION

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PROJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aladar Olgyay and Victor Olgyay. Solar Control and Shading Devices. Princeton University, 1957.

Charles R. Smith. Paul Rudolph and Louis Kahn: A Bibliography. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1987.

Christopher Domin and Joe King. Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses. Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.

“Chronological List of Works by Paul Rudolph, 1946-1974.” Architecture and Urbanism, no. 49, Jan. 1975.

“Leavengood Residence.” Architecture and Urbanism, no. 80, 80, July 1977.

“One-Story House on the Second Floor.” Architectural Forum, no. 95, 95, Oct. 1951.

Paul Rudolph. Paul Rudolph: Dessins D’Architecture. Office du Livre, 1974.

Timothy Rohan. The Architecture of Paul Rudolph. Yale University Press, 2014.