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Matlacha Bridge

    Nokomis Beach Pavilion was Sarasota’s first beach pavilion. It is located on Casa Key Road. It was built in 1954. The architect was Jack West who was a member of Sarasota School of Architecture.

     The Pavilion featured paved plaza,fountain and bathhouse of stacked Ocala block. Over the years, the Pavilion deteriorated and was in need of restoration.

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The architect enlisted for this project in 2008 was once again Jack West.

The Pavilion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places May 28, 2013.

This is a double leaf bascule bridge in Nokomis. It spans the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. It connects Casey Key with the mainland on Albee Road. This bridge was built in 1963. It replaced an old swing bridge that was located to the south.

The bridge is 309.1 feet in length. Average Daily traffic is 4,900.

Bridge Inspection Report 2018

Overall condition Fair

Superstructure condition rating. Fair (5 out of 9)

Substructure condition rating. Good. (7 out of 9)

Deck Condition rating. Good (7 out of 9)

This is a single lane swing bridge crossing the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. It is located near Osprey, Florida. It connects Casey Key with the mainland on Blackburn Point Road (CR-789)

    Mr.Abbot is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is the youngest member of the Sarasota School of Architecture. He was born in Darien, Georgia in 1935.. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Florida. He received his Master’s Degree in Architecture at Yale University in 1962 under Paul Rudolph, a member of the Sarasota School of Architecture.

     After graduation, he worked with Bert Brosmith, architect Sarasota 1959–1961. He worked with Architects Hawaii, Ltd, Honolulu 1962–1963. He worked Norman Foster at Team 4 London 1962–1963. Then he went to New York City to work with I.M. Psi, Architect 1964–1965. He founded his own practice in Sarasota in 1966

William Rupp was born in Philadelphia in 1927.

McCullough Pavilion (Center for Architecture Sarasota). Scott Commercial Building. 261-265 South Orange Avenue Sarasota Architects William Rupp and Joseph Farrell 1960. National Register of Historic Places 2016

     He was inducted in the army at age 18. He remained in the US Army until 1955. Post active duty, he attended the University of Florida . He graduated with a degree in design (architecture) in 1953. Upon graduation, Rupp worked with Paul Rudolph as an associate and then manager of the office.

     In 1955, Rudolph left Sarasota for New York City. Rupp opened a private architectural practice at 224 South Orange downtown Sarasota. Over the years Rupp worked with many of the members of the well known members of the Sarasota School Of architecture such as Ralph Twitchell, Jack West, Gene Leedy, Tim Seibert, Victor Lundy, and Bert Brosmith.

In 1959 Rupp formed Associated Architects with fellow architect Joseph Farrell. Their partnership lasted only two years but was quite productive. They designed the Uhr Residence Studio, Rupp Home, Kitsch House, Classes National Bank in Dunedin, Barkus Furniture Company, Sarasota and the Scott Commercial Building. 

In 1965, Rupp moved hid practice to Naples, Florida. While here worked on three apartment complexes, an animal clinic, a restaurant and his own house. 

In 1968, Rupp became an associate architect at Morris Ketchum Jr and Associates in New York.

In 1972, he relocated to Amherst, Massachusetts. He worked with Callister, Payne and Bischoff,Architects and Community Planners. In the mid 1970’s, he went into private practice.

     Victor Lundy was born to Russian Immigrant parents in a New York Brownstone in 1923. He demonstrated an early aptitude for drawing and painting. He attended an art school at New York University. He interrupted his studies to enlist in World War II. He sustained a serious injury for which he received a Purple Heart. He studied architecture at Harvard University under Walter Gropius.

     Lundy moved to Sarasota in 1951. He thrived in the nine years that he lived in this area. He relocated to New York in 1960. In 1976, he relocated to Houston for 7 years.

    On his own and with HHK, he designed many homes as recently as 2000.

Herron House 1957 Island of Venice Built for Sam Herron, a real estate developer. Architect Victor Lundy

The building features steel columns supporting blue tiled roof, glass curtain walls.

The house is located Siesta Key with canal access to the Gulf. There is 1100 square feet of space. It was built by Jack West for his mother