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Home of the Bartow Yellow Jackets!

Historic Bartow is a wonderfull place to visit and work we have much history here to explore, our Old Court House has a Historical  Museum that is well worth the visit.

The residents of Bartow are helpfull and always friendley they make you feel welcome.

Walking down our main street of Bartow you can see the charm of a southern town come to life, The quaint little shops and the resturants buzzing with familys sharing stories , memories and laughter.

Our friday fests are a must lots of family fun!

For more information about our Town visit the

Bartow Chamber of commerace website!

Historic buildings and landmarks

• Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church- 205 East Stanford Street. Built in 1926;Neogothic styling. One of the largest church buildings in Bartow.
• Conant House- 1010 South Broadway. Example of Colonial revival style.
• First Methodist Church- 310 South Broadway. Build in 1907, this is a fine example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. One of the first two churches in Bartow.
• Hugh Wear House- 310 South Orange Avenue. Built in 1889, but burned to the ground in the 1990s.
• Redeemer Lutheran Church – 390 East Parker Street. Gothic Revival architecture with a cross-shaped floor plan.
  • (built as Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, transferred ownership when the Episcopal parish outgrew it and built a new sanctuary)
• South Florida Military Academy- 1140 South Broadway. This school was eventually amalgamated into the University of Florida.
• Stuart Hotel- 145-195 South Central Avenue. Three-story brick building built in 1914.
• Swearingen-Langford House- 690 East Church Street (in Church Street Historic District). Neoclassical brick home built in 1925; location for a movie and several commercials.
• Thomas Lee Wilson House- 555 East Stanford Street. Was used as the Funeral Parlor in the movie My Girl.
• Windsweep- 935 South Oak Avenue. Built in 1909, this house was the residence used in the movie China Moon.
• The Wonder House- 1075 Mann Road. Features natural air-conditioning (using rainwater), secluded outdoor bathtubs, and numerous mirrors that let residents see who was at the door from other parts of the home

Climate

The climate of Bartow, like most of Florida, is humid subtropical. Most of the inland areas farthest away from the ocean tend to have more extreme temperature ranges than those areas on the coast. Since Bartow is one of the cities furthest from the coast in peninsular Florida, it can be among the hottest places in the state on some summer days, and during the occasional winter Arctic blast, it has had temperatures in the teens (Fahrenheit).

While Bartow’s distance from the coast has offered protection from most of the effects of landfalling hurricanes which occasionally cross the state, Bartow has on rare occasion been affected severely, most recently in 2004 when Hurricanes Charley, Francis and Jeanne crossed the state with the center of all three storms coming close to Bartow. The most severe of these, Charley rapidly crossed Polk County as a Category 3 storm, destroying up to a third of Bartow’s famous oak trees.