SPL LIVING
13 January/February 2020 StPeteLifeMag.com
Home History
In 1920, when the population
of St. Petersburg stood at just
14,000 people, Charles Richard
Hall built Kenwood, St. Petersburg
Country Club and 5030 Sunrise
Dr. S. was his home. While Perry
Snell was developing Snell Isle for
the upper middle class, Charles R.
Hall was developing Kenwood and
Lakewood Estates for the middle
class, around 1910-1920.
This house was built in 1920 and
the crash came around 1928, with
Clubhouse at the Country Club, so at some point the house
became the Bayou Bonita Clubhouse for the Country Club.
Following the depression, Rutland from Rutland Bank bought
the house. He later
divorced and gave the
house to his daughter,
Betty Rutland, who lived in
it for 50 years.
After two more owners,
the house and its unique
layout, with an atypical
design for Florida - a
big country house- with
great scale from room to
room with high ceilings all
throughout, still conserves
room, baseboards, mahogany paneling, cabinetry, butlers
pantry, stairs, railings and plaster molding.
by an artesian well.
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