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After an award-winning renovation by local practice Seibert Architects, the 1959 dwelling designed by architect Ralph Twitchell is up for grabs in Sarasota, Florida.

The home in Lido Shores, designed by Tollyn Twitchell, is an emblem of the Sarasota School of Architecture. You can buy it for $3 million.

Before it was formed with dredge, the adjacent area to the north was known as Cedar Point and then called the more attractive sounding Sunset Point, a popular spot for locals and sweethearts to watch the multi-hued skies as the sun went down. According to Sarasota historian Karl Grismer, early on a short-lived business was started there by Eli Veruki and Andrew X. Alexaky who exported dried fish roe to European markets under the name Gotzago. There was the Roberts and Stanton boat house with an engine repair shop, and a sawmill was built at Cedar Point which provided lumber for the growth o...

For 60 years, the motel has served tourists who visit the nearby spring. The 200-foot-deep pond has a nearly constant water temperature of 87 degrees, and Eastern Europeans love it for what they say are the health benefits of swimming, or just floating, in it. Lundy, 95, the eldest surviving member of the “Sarasota school” group of modernist architects, only practiced here for less than a decade, running an office from 1954 to 1960. By the time he moved his office to New York, Lundy was already a local architectural legend. In those few golden years of the 1950s, when it seemed that all t...

FLORIDA BUILDINGS I LOVE: No. 81: Warm Mineral Springs Motel, 1958, Sarasota County Harold Bubil © HERALD-TRIBUNE STAFF FILE PHOTO / HAROLD BUBIL The Warm Mineral Springs motel was designed circa 1958 by Victor Lundy, a leading figure of the "Sarasota school" of midcentury modern architecture. HERALD-TRIBUNE STAFF FILE PHOTO / HAROLD BUBIL 12-10-2013. Sam Herron believed in the power of good design. The owner of Warm Mineral Springs, he hired Victor Lundy to design his curvy, wing-shaped house in Venice (Florida Buildings I Love, No. 50), as well as a motel for the new comm...