Henry B. Plant Museum

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Tampa Bay Hotel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Location	401 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, Florida
Coordinates	27°56′43.7″N 82°27′50.45″W / 27.945472°N 82.4640139°W / 27.945472; -82.4640139
Area	4.5 acres (1.8 ha)
Built	1888–1891[2]
Architect	John A. Wood[1]
Architectural style	Moorish Revival[2]
NRHP reference No.	72000322[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	December 5, 1972
Designated NHL	May 11, 1976[3]

The Henry B. Plant Museum (Plant Museum) is located in the south wing of Plant Hall on the University of Tampa's campus. It is located at 401 West Kennedy Boulevard in Tampa, Florida. Plant Hall was originally built by Henry B. Plant as the Tampa Bay Hotel; a 511-room resort-style hotel that opened on February 5, 1891, near the terminus of the Plant System rail line, also forged and owned by Plant. The Plant Museum's exhibits focus on historical Gilded Age tourism in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, the elite lifestyle of the hotel's guests, and the Tampa Bay Hotel's use during the Spanish–American War. As such, the Plant Museum is set up in the Historic House Museum style. Exhibits display artifacts in a manner that reflects the original placement and usage within the related historic building.

The Tampa Bay Hotel was designed by architect J.A. Wood, who also designed the Old Hillsborough County Courthouse in 1892 in Tampa, Florida, as well as the Oglethorpe Hotel and the Mahoney-McGarvey House in Brunswick, Georgia.