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6 hours ago Share The City Commission overruled an advisory board in determining a McClellan Park house of disputed origin did not carry any historical significance. Is the home at 1701 Hashay Drive in McClellan Park historically significant and worthy of preservation? That’s a question that’s drawn opposing responses at City Hall over the past two months after the property owner applied to demolish the three-bedroom, 3,383-square-foot structure. City staff said the answer was no, recommending approval of the permit. The city’s Historic Preservation Board disagreed, voti...

FLORIDA BUILDINGS I LOVE: No. 72: Cocoon House, 1950, Siesta Key 3575 Bayou Louise Lane. Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph, architects Harold Bubil Many an architect’s first house was for his or her mother. In Sarasota in the late 1940s, the new architectural partnership of Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph was getting a lot of attention for their progressive, experimental house designs that took International School modernism and adapted it for Sarasota’s flat, waterfront landscape and subtropical climate. Some locals found their rectangular, flat-roofed, trim-free structures to be shockin...

The home was built in the 1950s, designed by noted Sarasota School of Architecture founders Ralph Twitchell and Jack West, and had been marketed as either an existing structure in need of renovations or a potential beachfront teardown. Listing agent Martie Lieberman of Premier Sotheby’s International Realty, founder of the Sarasota Architectural Foundation, specializes in selling Sarasota School of Architecture style homes through modernsarasota.com. Lieberman noted that the home was being listed for sale at land value with a hope that the buyer would ultimately renovate the home. The origi...