St. Petersburg made history Thursday as Ken Welch officially became the first African American to lead the city in the 130 years since it elected its...
The oldest park in unincorporated Pinellas county recently got its day in the sun, as Crystal Beach received a long-awaited historical marker and designation. The Pinellas...
Retired Tampa Police Sgt. Rufus Lewis has fond memories of St. Petersburg’s historic Melrose Clubhouse. As does Jasper Hunter Dixon, who lived just a block away....
When the St. Petersburg Museum of History’s 10,000-square-foot expansion debuts in the fall of 2022, the facility itself will be 100 years old. And the new...
If the universe treated historians with the same wide-eyed respect and slobbery adulation as film stars, Raymond Arsenault would be the Brad Pitt or George Clooney...
Visitors to Abercrombie Park now have a lot more space to explore. A newly unveiled expansion has added 2.4 acres of uplands and 1.2 acres of...
VINTAGE ST. PETE is a series focused on our city’s illustrious (and occasionally notorious) past. Many of these features have appeared in the Catalyst over the past two...
The last surviving member of St. Petersburg Police Department’s famous Courageous 12 joined St. Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway and St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman in...
The earth-turning and concrete-pouring for the new St. Pete Pier is taking place right outside Rui Farias’s office window. Every day, the executive director of the...
For 54 years, Webb’s City was one of the things visitors remembered most about St. Petersburg. From his flagship four-story building at the corner of 9th Street...
