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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The former home of Babe Ruth and the man behind the Gandy Bridge is back on the\u00a0market<\/a> in\u00a0St. Petersburg<\/a> for $1.86 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n 346 16th Ave NE was once a place the baseball legend and George Gandy Sr. called home.<\/p>\n Ruth spent his time in the three-bedroom, three-bathroom home when he was in the Bay Area for Yankees spring training.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Local real estate agent Sharon Kantner with Smith & Associates Real Estate said its previous owner listed it as dilapidated.\u00a0<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0The legend of Babe Ruth in the Tampa Bay area<\/a><\/p>\n “This was a ground zero,”\u00a0Kantner\u00a0explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kantner knew exactly who to call, esteemed local preservationist Maureen Stafford.\u00a0<\/p>\n “A builder would not have kept it. A builder would have bulldozed it,” Stafford said.<\/p>\n Stafford said the call came from left field just as she was getting ready to retire.\u00a0<\/p>\n The home being renovated:\u00a0 <\/p>\n “I was just finishing my swan song, and I thought, ‘I have to look at this house at least,” Stafford explained.<\/p>\n Stafford knew she had to purchase the property before someone else did.\u00a0<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Tampa Bay’s oldest living WWII veteran has died at 108: \u2018It\u2019s the greatest generation\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n “Oh, this was screaming, ‘Save me. ‘ It was one breath from absolute death, which would have been the wrecking ball. I just couldn’t do that,” Stafford said.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n For the past three and a half years, she has poured over $1 million into fully restoring the home.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It’s a fully restored\u00a0home<\/a>. I think there’s differences. You can renovate a home, but then there’s the restoration layer, which is a completely different animal,” Kantner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The home currently: <\/p>\n Kantner explained what went into the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n CLICK HERE:>>>\u00a0Follow FOX 13 on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n “Total excavation under the home with structural supports, foundation and the walls. Other than the integrity of the outside, it was like the whole inside was rebuilt,” Kantner said.<\/p>\n Stafford said keeping everything to scale was a must.<\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n The property was listed three weeks ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It blends the period charm of the 1920s to the modern conveniences of today,” said Kantner.<\/p>\n “This is not for me. This is for posterity. This is for those to come,” said Stafford.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: FOX 13’s Jennifer Kveglis collected the information in this story.<\/p>\n WATCH FOX 13 NEWS LIVE:<\/p>\n STAY CONNECTED WITH FOX 13 TAMPA:<\/p>\n St. Petersburg<\/a>Housing<\/a>Real Estate<\/a>Pinellas County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The former home of Babe Ruth and the man behind the Gandy Bridge is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1917,47,1644,115,1157,480,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-22412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-consumer","tag-fl","tag-housing","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-real-estate","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vlcsnap-2025-04-08-22h36m22s520.jpg\")
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