Live in Kenwood

Kenwood began in 1912, when the Philadelphian Charles Hall bought 160 acres of avocado groves west of downtown and the first plat was drawn. His first model house of 1918 is the Craftsman House Gallery now. The streets filled with bungalows in the 1920s land boom, St. Petersburg High School opened its William B. Ittner building in 1926, billed as the nation's first million-dollar high school, and in the 1930s about 170 houses were moved in from elsewhere in the city. Owners began restoring houses in the 1990s, and on 4 August 2003 the Kenwood Historic District was listed on the National Register: 2,203 historic buildings, more than half of them bungalows.

The guide's boundary is the area the Historic Kenwood Neighborhood Association serves as the City maps it, an area the association filed rather than a line the City drew: about 537 acres between Interstate 275 and 34th Street North, from Central Avenue to about 9th Avenue North. The 2020 census counted 3,970 residents in 2,408 homes. The Grand Central business district runs along Central at the southern edge. The 1,368 residents on the southern blocks are inside the City's South St. Petersburg redevelopment area, which reaches north of Central here; it keeps the growth in tax revenue for reinvestment and adds no rate.

The National Register listing is not what limits a buyer. It covers 3,106 of the residents and, in the City's words, places no restrictions on a private owner's alterations unless federal money is involved. The City's own local historic districts do: four small ones here, Northwest Kenwood, Southeast Kenwood, Southwest Central Kenwood and Seminole Park, with 930 residents between them. In those, any exterior alteration needs a certificate of appropriateness first: walls, roof, windows, painting unpainted masonry, additions, moving a house or tearing one down. Staff can approve minor work for a $50 fee; work that goes to the Community Planning and Preservation Commission costs $300 for an alteration or addition and $1,000 to demolish a main building. Southwest Central went to the Commission in March 2021 and to City Council that April; the other three districts' dates were not read for this guide.

The water stayed away in 2024. FEMA's map puts none of the area in its 1% annual chance flood zone, the reference point is in zone X on a 2003 panel the 2021 revision did not reprint, and the County puts no resident in an evacuation zone. The City assessed one parcel after Helene and recorded no damage. Milton two weeks later was different: it dropped 18.31 inches of rain on the city in a day, and the City assessed 38 parcels here, 10 with major damage and 1 destroyed, with no water inside any of them. The City's 49% substantial damage rule is written for buildings in FEMA's zone, so on that map it reaches no one here, but the City's own stormwater floodplain can flag land FEMA's does not, and from 1 January 2027 Citizens requires flood cover on every homeowners policy with wind, whatever the zone.

No price index follows the line. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 33713 was $361,180 in August 2026, up 0.4% on the year, but that ZIP held 31,321 people in 2020, 9,369 of them in Disston Heights. Every parcel pays the same 2025 stack, 19.9197 mills; a homestead at the ZIP figure owes about $6,356 a year on the base exemption amounts, and a landlord about $7,195. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value at 3% a year and resets on a sale, so the seller's bill understates yours. The arithmetic is on the St. Petersburg page.