WSU MUP Student
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My grandma lived on Longboat Key (just off of Sarasota) for ~30 years before she moved back up here for her final couple of years and those partial screen walls are all over the Sarasota and Bradenton area. While this one doesn't appear to be an original element of the house, it doesn't seem at all out of place. I like how they extended the design to the windows in the carport as well. Interestingly, I rarely see those elements further south in Fort Myers or Naples.
FWIW, Sarasota was the winter home for the Ringling Brothers circus and there was once a thriving arts scene in the community. I know there are a lot of homes and condos on Longboat Key and Anna Marie Island with a strong MCM and early modernist influence. I wouldn't be surprised if there were quite a few more MCM homes in the area, especially when you get closer to the north side of town where the Ringling house is and where a lot of the performers had homes.
When we would go down to Naples to visit my in-laws, my wife would always complain about all the old people everywhere and I never quite understood what she was talking about because it didn't seem that particularly elderly. Then one time we drove up to visit my grandma and we had to stop at a Walmart just off of 75 in Sarasota to buy a sippy cup or something trivial that we had forgotten for our infant daughter... My wife went into the store while I stayed outside pushing our daughter in a stroller and when she came out she commented that she now understood why Naples never seemed so old to me because everybody in the Walmart store was ancient. (I did look up the median ages just now, out of curiosity and Naples actually has a much higher median age than Sarasota, but I imagine that figure is skewed by the fact that Naples is more of a vacation and retirement area than the Sarasota area with a significantly smaller total population so there just aren't that many young folks to bring the median age figure down)
