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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...

The National Weather Service said many creeks and streams were near or at flood stage on Monday. Rivers will also remain elevated through the week.

plane's altered course was programmed at least 12 minutes before the co pilot signed off with the words, all right, good night. still, the u-turn could reflect the pilot's alternate route in the case of an emergency. and it doesn't mean something more sinister was at play. with a search area of 2 million nautical miles they're leaning on other countries to control the international operation. a huge portion is in the southern indian ocean southwest of australia where they're combing the rough waters. the area is too big for possible use of underwater sonar. officials say nothing susp...