5110 Brywill Circle

The Harvey House has always been a prominent landmark in northern Sarasota neighborhood of Sapphire Shores. Constructed in 1925, it is one of the first tow houses built in the new Sapphire Shores subdivision, a neighborhood first conceived by developer Walter Bryson. Bryson became intersected in the area when his company was hired to pave the North Tamiami Trail. He and a business associate J. Y Wilson (thus the name "Brywill") formed the realty company and acquired the land shortly after John Ringling sold it.-->More Info

 
SARASOTA...RICH IN HISTORY

Sarasota has a wide variety of historic homes from the small tin roof clapboard cottage to probably the best known – Ca'd'Zan, the former John and Mable Ringling house and now part of the Florida State University’s Center for the Cultural Arts.  Other styles, such as Prairie, Craftsman, Colonial, Tudor, etc. exist, but they are all overshadowed by two specific styles; Mediterranean Revival and the Sarasota School of Architecture.

Mediterranean Revival started on the west coast and had its roots in the 1915 California-Pacific Exposition in San Diego.  Bertram Goodhue designed the California Building for the Exposition in this style and it became the rage.  It was brought to the east coast by Addison Mizner and was principally done in Palm Beach starting with the Everglades Club and then became the required style for the large mansions being built in the 20s. 

From Palm Beach it spread to other areas of Florida and came to Sarasota in the mid 1920’s. There are estimated to be approximately 300 homes of this style still in existence in greater Sarasota. 

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