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City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 Harding Circle Historic District (SO00372) Inventory Location: Appendix A, A-161 Map Location: Appendix C, C-10 St. Armand’s Key is a 150-acre island, shaped as an oval, located in Sarasota Bay (Gulf of Mexico), west of the mainland, and is situated between Coon Key and Lido Key. St. Armand’s consists on commercial and residential structures. The commercial structures border St. Armand’s Circle. The residential structures surround the commercial structures in perpendicular and curvilinear streets. The NRHP nomination, completed in 2000, did not record any historic commercial buildings within St. Armand’s Key, and very few residential structures met the fifty-year criteria at that time. Despite the NRHP nomination’s period of significance maintaining its time period between 1924 to 1950, ESI recommends that the period of significance be expanded to the 1970s. 89 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 Figure 73: Harding Circle Historic District boundary (see Appendix C, C-10). 90 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 Laurel Park Historic District Inventory Location: Appendix A, A-166 Map Location: Appendix C, C-11 The Laurel Park Historic District is the largest residential NRHP district in Sarasota. It is generally bounded by Morrill Street to the north, Julia Place and Lafayette Court to the east, Devonshire Lane and Brother Geenen Way to the south, and Rawls Avenue on the west. The development is located within the land holdings of Owen Burns, who built the National Register-listed Burns Court district, and “encompasses all and parts of six historic subdivisions.” Most of the buildings were constructed between 1920 and 1957, although most development fell off following WWII (Building picked up again in the early 2000s). There are a wide variety of styles, primarily wood frame. ESI does not recommend altering the current nomination boundary but does recommend updating its list of contributing and non-contributing structures. 91 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 Figure 74: Laurel Park Historic District boundary (see Appendix C, C-11). 92 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 Overtown Historic District Inventory Location: Appendix A, A-171 Map Location: Appendix C, C-12 According to the 2002 NRHP nomination, Overtown once held a mixture of single-family residences, commercial buildings, churches, schools, and clubhouses. The period of significance is from 1913 – 1951. Many of these structures have been demolished, and only eighteen (18) structures that predate 1970 remain in the district. Only one structure, built in 1957, was newly recorded in this survey. ESI does not recommend altering the boundaries of the district. 93 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 Figure 75: Overtown Historic District boundary (see Appendix C, C-12). 94 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 Rigby’s La Plaza Historic District21 Rigby’s La Plaza Historic District is composed of eight structures (six residences and two garage/apartments) located at 1002-138 S. Osprey Avenue, 1744 and 1776 Alta Vista, and 1777 Irving Avenue. According to the 1994 NRHP nomination, all the buildings were constructed in 1926 and “are excellent examples of the Mediterranean Revival Style” (p. 3). They “share a unified plan and association, style and design, date of construction, common building materials and method of construction” (p. 8). ESI does not recommend any alterations or additions to this district. 21 Rigby’s La Plaza District is also listed on the Sarasota Local Register (see page 125). 95 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 Figure 76: Rigby's La Plaza Historic District boundary (see Appendix C, C-13). 96 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 National Register District Recommendations The City should consider introducing design guidelines and reviews to existing National Register districts. Without them, alterations are not approved within the historic context of the district. This can result in a contributing structure being altered such that it becomes non-contributing. Depending on alterations or additions, structures that were previously recorded as contributing may now be considered non-contributing (for example, Figure 78 and Figure 77). On the other hand, some owners return their properties back to their original states, such as 1627 Cocoanut Street shown in Figure 30. A Figure 78: SO03398, 1445 21st Street. set of statewide guidelines is available from the Bureau of Historic Preservation. The guidelines should be based on a consensus definition of the unique features of the area, and what property owners and residents, in concert with the Historic Preservation Commission, would like to retain and reinforce. The City already has a similar review policy in place for individual structures listed on the local or national registers. The City of Sarasota should consider reviewing each of the historic districts currently listed in the NRHP as there are opportunities for expansion of some of these districts to include structures which have recently come into the 50-year requirement. In general, for each of the districts surveyed as part of this city-wide survey, consideration should be given to the expansion of the period of significance to include all contributing Figure 77: SO00093 1422 21st Street. structures that meet the year-built date of 1970, in accordance with NRHP criteria. Examples of the districts to be potentially expanded include the Central-Cocoanut Historic District, the Downtown Historic District, and the Harding Circle Historic District. 97 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 Potential National Register of Historic Places Nominations Some of the surveyed neighborhoods have the potential for NRHP District nomination. It appears that at least seven (7) areas within the city limits contain a sufficient concentration of buildings with satisfactory integrity to meet criteria for listing as a NRHP District and form historic districts. Among those areas are Arlington Park, Bird Key, Granada, Hudson Bayou, Indian Beach/Sapphire Shores, McClellan Park, and the Sarasota School of Architecture Multiple Property Listing. 98 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 Figure 79. Potential NRHP districts. See Appendix C, C-14 for a larger version of this map. 99 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 Arlington Park Super Pod E and Pod 5-32 Inventory Location: Appendix A, page A-171 Map Location: Appendix C, C-15 As recorded in GAI Consultants Phase IV Report in 2006, the Arlington Park Historic District consists of a multitude of post-World War II houses, most in Mid-Century and Contemporary styles. The proposed district follows the City of Sarasota boundary on the south, jogging along Sunnyside Lane to Webber Street on the south; Bahia Vista Street on the north; S. Tuttle Avenue on the east; and S. Tamiami Trail on the west. It roughly mimics the current boundary of the Arlington Park Neighborhood Association. The neighborhood is a fine example of mid-century development post- World War II. In keeping with the building boom in the aftermath of the war, the changes in Arlington Park reflects the city’s growth period and suburbanization. Aerials from 1948 and 1974 reflect similar changes in the city of Sarasota at the end of World War II and the beginning of the 1970s (Figure 80). Figure 80: Aerials of Arlington Park. On the right is the 1948 aerial with the current boundary (in yellow) of Arlington Park and the left, a 1974 aerial. Both images from the Sarasota County Property Appraiser. The area was formally owned by Mrs. Potter Palmer, who later sold the land to Clinton Foods, which used the land for orange groves. Taking advantage of the building boom, Frank Smith and Rolland King purchased the land from Clinton Foods and by 1956, had drawn blueprints for the residential development. According to Robert Plunket, the original area of Arlington Park is north of Hyde Park (Plunket 2016). Most houses were constructed in the 1950s for middle class families and are close to 1,000 square feet, although some 1920 bungalows are mixed within the area. With so much land and few construction companies in Sarasota at the time, many firms built and sold houses in the South Gate portion of Arlington Park (southeast corner of the 1974 aerial) – so much so that “residents boast that it’s rare to find two houses on any one street that have the same floor plan” (Allen 2006). South Gate is considered the first “planned, modern subdivision in the city,” despite the fact that only 100 City of Sarasota Historic Structures Survey January 2020 200 acres of the development fall within the Sarasota city limits (Allen 2006; Neighborhood News 2004). The 1948 aerial depicts most of this land as groves. In October 2005, the City of Sarasota approved $300,000 for improvements as part of the Arlington Park Neighborhood Action Strategy (APNAS), including decorative lighting installed on Hyde Park and Waldemere Streets from Tuttle to East Avenue, sidewalk improvements, neighborhood signs (Figure 81), and solar speed signs to slow down traffic Figure 81: Arlington Park Neighborhood (Neighborhood News 2006). The neighborhood also includes a Association signage. park, aptly named Arlington Park. It contains a lap pool, basketball and tennis courts, an indoor gym, a concrete sidewalk for walking and biking throughout, and a dog park (Plunket 2016). The neighborhood of Arlington Park encompasses multiple subdivisions, including La Linda Terrace, Loma Linda Park, Rustic Lodge, Hyde Park Heights, Hibiscus Park, Southside Park, Norwood Park Sunnyside Park, South Gate, and additional smaller subdivisions. The potential Arlington Park Historic District has one (1) locally designated structure, known as the Hugh K. Browning Home (SO00109), located at 2088 Hawthorne Street and designed in the Tudor Revival style. As of this survey, there are zero (0) NRHP structures listed within the potential district boundary.