From Swampland to Sophistication: How H. B. Plant’s Tampa Bay Hotel Set the Foundation for a Thriving City

dc.contributor.author	Benner, Marcella
dc.date.accessioned	2019-04-04T17:01:36Z
dc.date.available	2019-04-04T17:01:36Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description	Recommended Citation: Benner, Marcella. “From Swampland to Sophistication: How H. B. Plant’s Tampa Bay Hotel Set the Foundation for a Thriving City.” Royal Road, 2019. https://doi.org/10.48497/ZMN5-X471.
dc.description.abstract	This essay examines the various ways in which the Tampa Bay Hotel and the entrepreneur who built it, Henry B. Plant, initiated the transformation of Tampa, Florida into a global city. Drawing upon primary sources and scholarly research, the paper tracks how the luxury hotel led to improvement of the city’s infrastructure and technology, economic development, population growth, and greater notoriety throughout the world. The impact that Plant and his hotel have had on the city can still be seen today through Tampa’s diverse cultural identity and ongoing growth and development.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.48497/zmn5-x471
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/683
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Department of English and Writing, The University of Tampa	en_US
dc.subject	Tampa Bay Hotel (Tampa, Fla.)	en_US
dc.subject	Plant, Henry Bradley, 1819-1899	en_US
dc.subject	Henry B. Plant Museum	en_US
dc.subject	Tampa Bay (Fla.)	en_US
dc.title	From Swampland to Sophistication: How H. B. Plant’s Tampa Bay Hotel Set the Foundation for a Thriving City	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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