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N2008- 5, Photographic collection, ca 1962-1974; Box 24a
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Two-story houses--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Dwellings--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Architecture, Domestic--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Historic buildings--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Prefabricated houses--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Houses--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
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Richard Parks began working at Evon Streetman Photography in Tallahassee ca. 1963. Streetman later sold the business and studio to Parks when she moved to Gainesville about 1965. The studio was renamed Richard Parks Photography.
Accompanying note: "The Bowen House is one of the oldest prefabricated houses in the country. It was built in the late 1830s for James Kirksey [a merchant + mayor of Tallahassee]. The lumber, New England white pine, was framed in New York and shipped in standard sections to Saint Marks [via New Orleans], then hauled to Tallahassee on the old Saint Marks-Tallahassee railroad. The whole house is mortised and held together by long wooden pegs. The charming addition at the south end of the house was made in the same style several years after the original house was completed, while the back addition is of a much later date. It was the home of Charles E. Dyke, editor of The Floridian, which was Florida's most influential newspaper of the 19th century."
Charles E. Dyke later sold the newspaper and the house to Newton M. Bowen in 1885. His daughter Clare Bowen willed it to Jean Rich who restored it.
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Parks, Richard. The Bowen House at 325 N. Calhoun St. in Tallahassee, Florida. 1967. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/46820>, accessed 12 June 2026.
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Parks, Richard. The Bowen House at 325 N. Calhoun St. in Tallahassee, Florida. 1967. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/46820>
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(State Archives of Florida/Parks)
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