Francis J. Kennard

Francis J. Kennard (March 15, 1865 - April 29, 1944 ) was a prolific architect of many prominent buildings in Tampa, Florida. The public buildings he designed are often in the Neoclassical style. His work includes Hillsborough High School, St. Andrews Episcopal Church, and the Belleview-Biltmore Hotel. Kennard employed the French Renaissance Revival style in his design for el Centro Español de Tampa as well as influences from Moorish Revival and Spanish Mediterranean Revival.

Kennard's expansion plan for the Boca Grande Hotel became the Gasparilla Inn.

Work Anderson-Frank House with Michael J. Miller assisting Belleview-Biltmore Hotel Firestone Building (1929) 578 North Orange Avenue (Francis J. Kennard & Son) Floridan Palace Hotel (1927) with G.A. Miller (builder) additions to the Old Polk County Courthouse (1926) Old Pinellas County Courthouse (1918) Old Lee County Courthouse Fort Myers (1915) Colonial Theatre, Bethlehem, New Hampshire (1915) Gasparilla Inn 1912 (an expansion of the Boca Grande Hotel) El Centro Español de Tampa (1912) Old Polk County Courthouse with Edward Columbus Hosford St. Andrews Episcopal Church with Michael J. Miller Hillsboro Bank Building with G.A. Miller