title: Franklin O. Adams
text: # Franklin O. Adams
  
  Franklin Oliver Adams Jr. (1881 – 1967) was an American architect in Tampa, Florida.
  
  ## Background
  
  Adams was born in Waterproof, Louisiana on July 5, 1881. Adams grew up on a cotton plantation and was taught by a governess. He graduated from Centenary College in 1901 with a Bachelor of Science degree and started out as a teacher, "teaching in a log house in Mississippi". He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907 with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture.
  
  After graduating, Adams worked as a draftsman for Newhall & Belvins in Boston. He worked as a draftsman and superintendent for Harry B. Wheelock in Birmingham from 1909–1914
  
  He died on November 27, 1967.
  
  ## Works
  
  His works include:
  
  * The third Tampa City Hall (1926)
  * Riverview Terrace
  * Plant High School (1927). Tampa, Florida.
  * Lakeland Public Library (1927). Lakeland, Florida.
  * Harry S. Mayhall Auditorium, demolished (1927–1969). Lakeland, Florida.
  * the second Morrell Memorial Hospital
  * Plant City's South Florida Baptist Hospital (1953).
  
  Works that have been added to the National Register of Historic Places:
  
  * House at 116 West Davis Boulevard (1925). Tampa, Florida; Added in 1989.
  * House at 301 Caspian Street (1925). Tampa, Florida; Added in 1989.
  * Bay Isle Commercial Building (1926). Tampa, Florida; Added in 1989.
  * House at 131 West Davis Boulevard (1928). Tampa, Florida; Added in 1990
  * United States
  * Florida
  * Architecture
  