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File:Detail of tower and interior south wall, facing southeast - El Vernona-John Ringling Hotel, 111 North Tamiami Trail (U.S. Highway 41), Sarasota, Sarasota County, FL HABS FL-405-7.tif

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Detail of tower and interior south wall, facing southeast - El Vernona-John Ringling Hotel, 111 North Tamiami Trail (U.S. Highway 41), Sarasota, Sarasota County, FL
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Everson, Michael

Related names:

Baum, Dwight James, Designer
Burns, Owen, Builder
Ringling, John, Owner
Mason, Anne, transmitter
Title
Detail of tower and interior south wall, facing southeast - El Vernona-John Ringling Hotel, 111 North Tamiami Trail (U.S. Highway 41), Sarasota, Sarasota County, FL
Depicted place Florida; Sarasota County; Sarasota
Date 1998
date QS:P571,+1998-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS FL-405-7
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  • Significance: It was designed by Dwight James Baum and constructed in 1926 by the Burns Construction Company. From the beginning, the hotel was the center of glamour and activity in Sarasota. Although constructed by Owen Burns, a Sarasota real estate developer, John Ringling of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus purchased the property four years after it opened. Ringling changed the name and management of the hotel, but it remained a posh destination for the wealthy and elite. After Ringling's death in 1936, his nephew, John Ringling North, introduced a circus theme to the hotel. Trapeze artists and aerialists swung from ropes tied to wood beams in the dining room during the heyday of the hotel in the 1940s and early 1950s. The hotel closed ca. 1957, was converted to apartments, and reopened in 1964. It closed again in 1980, and remained vacant for eighteen years. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to rehabilitate the building, it was demolished in June 1998.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1162
  • Survey number: HABS FL-405
  • Building/structure dates: 1926 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1964 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1998 Demolished
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 87000197.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fl0420.photos.361257p
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Object location27° 20′ 10″ N, 82° 31′ 50.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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