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2. Seagate (Manatee County, Florida) - Wikipedia

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   January 21, 1983. Seagate, is located along Sarasota Bay in Manatee County, Florida, and was the former winter estate of Powel Crosley Jr., a noted Cincinnati, Ohio, industrialist and entrepreneur. Crosley had the 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m 2 ), Mediterranean Revival -style home built in 1929 for his wife, Gwendolyn, on 45-acre (18-hectare) of ...

3. Ca' d'Zan - Wikipedia

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   15 December 1982. Cà d'Zan ( / kɑːˌdə.zɑːn /) is a Mediterranean revival residence in Sarasota, Florida, adjacent to Sarasota Bay. Cà d'Zan was built in the mid-1920s as the winter retreat of the American circus mogul, entrepreneur, and art collector John Ringling and his wife Mable Burton Ringling. The name Cà d'Zan means "House of ...

4. Friends of Seagate Inc. - Wikipedia

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   The present-day, 16.5-acre (6.7-hectare) Powel Crosley Estate serves as an event rental facility. A 28.4-acre (11.5-hectare) parcel of the property is the present-day site of the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee campus. Seagate's distinctive weathervane atop it tower was th inspiration for the organization's logo. [citation needed]

5. Owen Burns (developer) - Wikipedia

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   Owen Burns (October 31, 1869 – August 22, 1937) was an American entrepreneur, banker, builder, and land developer who at one time owned the majority of the land comprising Sarasota, Florida. [ 1 ] He developed or built many of its historic structures, developments, roads, seawalls, and bridges. He became a leader in the community ...

6. Sarasota, Florida - Wikipedia

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   Sarasota ( / ˌsærəˈsoʊtə /) is a city in and the county seat of Sarasota County, Florida, United States. It is located in Southwest Florida, the southern end of the Greater Tampa Bay Area, and north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

7. Lakewood Ranch, Florida - Wikipedia

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   2571108. Website. lakewoodranch .com. Lakewood Ranch is a planned community and census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Manatee County and northeastern Sarasota County, Florida, United States, consisting of approximately 31,000 acres (13,000 ha). [ 5] It is part of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.