The Owl's Junction and Woodshed

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The "Owl's Junction" was built around 1929, rising above the garage and tool shed area at the Moseley Homestead, serving as living quarters and studio for Karl Moseley, artist son of Julia Daniels Moseley and Charles Scott Moseley. Below, a workshop was created for him to hone his craft. Later, a carport with a shed roof was added to the east side of the workshop. Returning from New York in the mid-1920s during the Great Depression, Karl settled back into the Florida homestead where he worked on a federal arts project producing distinctive ink drawings for the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). These unique pieces captured "the historical phases of rural life around Tampa" with numerous works showcasing this theme. By 1937, thirty of his W.P.A.-commissioned artworks were featured in an exhibition at the Fine Arts Building on the Florida State Fair Grounds in Tampa, and in 1938, a Florida Artists Series titled "A Survey of Activity in Retrospect" toured the state's Federal Art Galleries. The Owl's Junction structure is part of the Moseley Homestead, listed as a National Register of Historic Places site since around 1886.