Plant Sumner House

Plant Sumner is very similar in style to houses built by the railroad magnate Henry Plant. He built the luxury hotel, the Belleview and some believe Plant’s supervisors, either from the railroad or the hotel, lived in the house.

The building dates to the mid 1890s and few homes on the Pinellas Peninsula could then boast the modern conveniences of this otherwise modest middle class home. This seven-room home had electricity, running water and an elaborate bathroom. It received running water from the hotel’s waterworks, which predated Clearwater’s city water system