Purvis Harris 4th St Add is an old recorded plat name, the kind that shows up on a legal description and in dated sold-listing records, rather than a marketed community. It sits inside Harris Park, an established inland neighborhood of St. Petersburg in ZIP 33714, bounded by I-275 to the west, Haines Road to the north, 16th Street North to the east, and 38th Avenue North to the south (Harris Park Neighborhood Association, harrisparkstpete.com).
Harris Park dates to roughly 1925, and most of its homes were built between 1940 and 1969, so this is an established, condition-driven market of small to medium single-family homes and small apartment buildings (city-data.com neighborhood profile). It is a primarily residential area about four miles from downtown St. Petersburg and the Tampa Bay waterfront, surrounded by shopping and dining along the nearby corridors.
The deal here is made or lost on the parcel and the condition, not on the plat name. Roof age, systems, wind mitigation, and insurability drive value on older St. Pete stock, and the flood zone is parcel specific even in an inland neighborhood. Read the FEMA map and an insurance quote for the exact address before the finishes.
The pitch is inland value: Harris Park sits on relatively higher ground than the coastal St. Pete neighborhoods that flooded in the 2024 storms, which has supported demand for inland and higher-elevation pockets across the city (Tampa Bay market coverage, 2025). The work is sorting condition honestly and verifying the flood and insurance math, because an inland location helps but does not erase parcel-level risk.
