He came to Tampa in 1907 and soon had success winning design competitions for buildings including the Centro Asturiano de Tampa.Lana Burroughs Temple Terrace page 56, Tim Lancaster Elliott wrote in his own obituary that he was born April 4, 1886, in the Catskill Mountains of Woodstock, New York, and moved to New York City when he was 15. In the city he worked as an office clerk for an architectural firm. He eventually moved to Norfolk, Virginia where he designed buildings for the Jamestown Exposition. After the expo he moved to Tampa. Elliott retired in 1954 and died in 1967. Granddaughter Lynn Elliott Rydene is an interior designer in Tampa.
