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January 21, 1983. Seagate, is located along Sarasota Bay in Manatee County, Florida, and was the former winter estate of Powel Crosley Jr., a noted Cincinnati, Ohio, industrialist and entrepreneur. Crosley had the 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m 2 ), Mediterranean Revival -style home built in 1929 for his wife, Gwendolyn, on 45-acre (18-hectare) of ...
The Caples'–Ringlings' Estates Historic District comprises the John Ringling Estate, the Edith and Charles Ringling and Hester Ringling Lancaster Sanford Estates, and the Ellen and Ralph Caples Estate as a U.S. historic district located in Sarasota, Florida. The historic designation was given on December 15, 1982.
Location of Sarasota County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sarasota County, Florida.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sarasota County, Florida, United States.
Ca' d'Zan. Cà d'Zan (/ kɑːˌdə.zɑːn /) is a Mediterranean revival residence in Sarasota, Florida, adjacent to Sarasota Bay. Cà d'Zan was built in the mid-1920s as the winter retreat of the American circus mogul, entrepreneur, and art collector John Ringling and his wife Mable Burton Ringling. The name Cà d'Zan means "House of John" in ...
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is an American trade association [4] for those who work in the real estate industry. As of December 2023, it had over 1.5 million members, [5] making it the largest trade association in the United States [6] including NAR's institutes, societies, and councils, involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.
The area known today as Sarasota appeared on a sheepskin Spanish map from 1763 with the word Zarazote over present-day Sarasota and Bradenton. [12] The origin of the name is disputed, with some claiming that it is based on conquistador Hernando de Soto's daughter Sara, and others claiming that it comes from "sara-de-cota," meaning "an area of land easily observed" in the language of the Calusa ...
The population of the area around Sarasota grew from 3,000 in 1920 to over 15,000 by 1926. By the late 1920s, Sarasota was the largest city on the Gulf Coast south of St. Petersburg and Sarasota County was one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. [47] John Ringling was the most prominent real estate developers. [46]
Major construction projects coming to I-75 and State Road 70 in Sarasota-Manatee. Herald-Tribune. Heather Bushman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune. September 29, 2023 at 11:16 AM.