The Fort Harrison Hotel is a 1926 Mediterranean Revival building on Fort Harrison Avenue in downtown Clearwater. Originally built as a luxury hotel during the Florida land boom, it has served as the main building of the Church of Scientology's Flag Land Base since 1975. The church restored the exterior in 2009, and the pale yellow facade with its arched windows and clay tile roof is one of the more striking buildings in the downtown core.
You cannot enter the hotel unless you are a Scientology member, but the building is worth noting because the church's presence is one of the defining features of downtown Clearwater. The organization owns a significant portion of the commercial real estate along Cleveland Street and Fort Harrison Avenue, which gives parts of the downtown a quieter, more institutional feel than you might expect. The nearby Flag Building, completed in 2013, is the largest building in Clearwater at 377,000 square feet.