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Sarasota County, Florida

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
104historic places
—earliest paper
1921formed
434,006pop. 2020
8cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 104 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Sarasota, Venice, Osprey.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Florida is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Sarasota titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

72 of 104 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

104 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
American National Bank BuildingSarasotaBuilding1998
Appleby BuildingSarasotaBuilding2001
Armada Road Multi-Family DistrictVeniceDistrict1989
Armistead, William Martin, HouseSarasotaBuilding2009
Bacheller-Brewer Model Home EstateSarasotaDistrict1992
Bacon and Tomlin, Inc.SarasotaBuilding1984
Bay Haven SchoolSarasotaBuilding1984
Bee Ridge Woman's ClubSarasotaBuilding1995
Binz, Frank and Matilda, HouseSarasotaBuilding1994
Bispham-Wilson Historic DistrictSarasotaDistrict2002
Blackburn Point BridgeOspreyStructure2001
Blalock HouseVeniceBuilding1989
Bryson-Crane HouseSarasotaBuilding2005
Burns Court Historic DistrictSarasotaDistrict1984
Burns Realty Company-Karl Bickel HouseSarasotaBuilding1987
Burns, William J., HouseSarasotaBuilding1997
Burrows, Waters and Elsa, Historic DistrictOspreyDistrict2012
Caples'-Ringlings' Estates Historic DistrictSarasotaDistrict1982
Casa Del MarSarasotaBuilding1997
Central-Cocoanut Historic DistrictSarasotaDistrict2005
Chidsey LibrarySarasotaBuilding2011
City WaterworksSarasotaBuilding1984
Corrigan HouseSarasotaBuilding1994
Crisp BuildingSarasotaBuilding2000
DeCanizares, F.A., HouseSarasotaBuilding1984
DeMarcay HotelSarasotaBuilding1984
Downtown Sarasota Historic DistrictSarasotaDistrict2009
Downtown Sarasota Historic District Boundary DecreaseSarasotaDistrict2010
Eagle Point Historic DistrictVeniceDistrict1991
Earle HouseSarasotaBuilding1993
Edgewood Historic DistrictVeniceDistrict1989
Edwards TheatreSarasotaBuilding1984
El Patio ApartmentsSarasotaBuilding1993
El Vernona Apartments-Broadway ApartmentsSarasotaBuilding1984
El Vernona Hotel-John Ringling HotelSarasotaBuilding1987
Field EstateSarasotaBuilding1986
Frances-Carlton ApartmentsSarasotaBuilding1984
Halton, Dr. Joseph, HouseSarasotaBuilding1984
Harding Circle Historic DistrictSarasotaSite2001
Hermitage-Whitney Historic DistrictEnglewoodDistrict2002
Hotel VeniceVeniceBuilding1984
House at 507 Jackson DriveSarasotaBuilding1998
House at 710 Armada Road SouthVeniceBuilding1989
John Nolen Plan of Venice Historic DistrictVeniceDistrict2010
Johnson Chapel Missionary Baptist ChurchLaurelBuilding1997
Johnson-Schoolcrafy BuildingVeniceBuilding1996
Keith, Edson, EstateSarasotaDistrict1991
Kennedy, Dr. Walter, HouseSarasotaBuilding1994
Kress, S.H., BuildingSarasotaBuilding1984
Lamolithic Historic DistrictSarasotaDistrict2025
Laurel Park Historic DistrictSarasotaDistrict2008
Leech, Hilton, House and Amagansett Art SchoolSarasotaBuilding1995
Leigh, Charles E., HouseSarasotaBuilding2019
Lemon Bay Woman's ClubEnglewoodBuilding1988
Levillain-Letton HouseVeniceBuilding1989
Little Salt SpringsNorth Port CharlotteSite1979
Maine Colony Historic DistrictSarasotaBuilding2005
Manasota Beach Club Historic DistrictEnglewoodDistrict2023
Markowitz HouseSarasotaBuilding2022
Miakka School HouseMiakkaBuilding1986
Municipal Auditorium-Recreation ClubSarasotaBuilding1995
Newtown Historic DistrictSarasotaDistrict2024
Nielsen, Lucienne, HouseNokomisBuilding2007
Nokomis Beach PavilionNokomisBuilding2013
Osprey Archeological and Historic SiteOspreySite1975
Osprey SchoolOspreyBuilding1994
Out of Door SchoolSarasotaBuilding1994
Overtown Historic DistrictSarasotaDistrict2002
Payne, Christy, MansionSarasotaBuilding1998
Purdy, Capt. W. F., HouseSarasotaBuilding1984
Reagin, L.D., HouseSarasotaBuilding1984
Reid, Leonard, HouseSarasotaBuilding2002
Revere Quality Institute HouseSarasotaBuilding2008
Rigby's La Plaza Historic DistrictSarasotaDistrict1994
Rosemary CemeterySarasotaSite2003
Roth Cigar FactorySarasotaBuilding1984
Rudolph, Paul, Sarasota High School AdditionSarasotaBuilding2012
Sanderling Beach ClubSarasotaBuilding1994
Sarasota County Chamber of Commerce BuildingSarasotaBuilding2020
Sarasota County CourthouseSarasotaBuilding1984
Sarasota Garden CenterSarasotaBuilding2022
Sarasota Herald BuildingSarasotaBuilding1984
Sarasota High SchoolSarasotaBuilding1984
Sarasota Times BuildingSarasotaBuilding1984
Sarasota Woman's ClubSarasotaBuilding1985
Schueler, George, HouseSarasotaBuilding1997
Scott Commercial BuildingSarasotaBuilding2016
South Side SchoolSarasotaBuilding1984
Southwick-Harmon HouseSarasotaBuilding2001
St. Paul Lutheran ChurchSarasotaBuilding2024
Thoms HouseSarastoaBuilding1994
Triangle InnVeniceBuilding1996
U.S. Post Office-Federal BuildingSarasotaBuilding1984
Umbrella HouseSarasotaBuilding2019
Valencia Hotel and ArcadeVeniceBuilding1994
Venezia Park Historic DistrictVeniceDistrict1989
Venice DepotVeniceBuilding1989
Warm Mineral SpringsCity of North PortSite1977
Warm Mineral Springs Building ComplexNorth PortBuilding2019
Warm Mineral Springs MotelNorth PortBuilding2013
Whitfield, J. G., EstateSarasotaBuilding1985
William, H.B., HouseSarasotaBuilding1984
Wilson, Dr. C. B., HouseSarasotaBuilding1984
Worth's BlockSarasotaBuilding1998

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sarasota was formed in 1921 (1921-06-15) from Manatee.

SARASOTA created from MANATEE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Sarasota County population from 1930 to 2020 (Census historical series).

434k223k12k19301960198020002020
1930194019501960198020002020
12,44016,10628,82776,895202,251325,957434,006

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
De Soto National MemorialPark unit39.6 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

8 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed
NameLatLon
Gulf Pines Memorial26.96006-82.34843
Gulf Pines Memorial Park27.01379-82.38368
Miakka Cemetery27.31644-82.26767
Palms Memorial Park27.33615-82.46593
Palms Memorial Park27.33612-82.46608
Sarasota Memorial Park27.26766-82.52811
Sarasota National Cemetery27.2469-82.38178
Venice Memorial Gardens27.0795-82.4262

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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