Perry Harvey Sr. Park Skateboard Bowl Tampa, Florida
National Register of Historic Places Data
Perry Harvey Sr. Park Skateboard Bowl has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13000811
- Date Listed
- October 7, 2013
- Name
- Perry Harvey Sr. Park Skateboard Bowl
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 900 E. Scott St.
- City/Town
- Tampa
- County
- Hillsborough
- State
- Florida
- Category
- structure
- Level of Sig.
- state
- Areas of Sig.
- ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATION; ARCHITECTURE; ENGINEERING
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Perry Harvey Sr. Park Skateboard Bowl, affectionately known as The Bro Bowl, was constructed in 1978. It is significant at the local and statewide levels under Criterion A, in the area of Entertainment/Recreation, and under Criterion C in the areas of Architecture and Engineering. The bowl was the vision of city parks and recreation employee, Joel Jackson, beginning in 1975. It is one of four remaining skateboard bowls known to exist in the United States from the second wave in the development of the sport of skateboarding. The 35- year-old structure meets Criterion Consideration Gas a resource that is less than 50 years old because, of its rarity and because of the four remaining bowls built in the 1970s, it retains the highest level of integrity, and is the best remaining bowl that reflects the Golden Age or skatepark era of the sport's development.
