Sep 3, 2026 · 55 min · 9 segments
Ever wonder why historic buildings are so rare in Florida? How do we as a community perform when it comes to historic preservation? Ron Kashden joins Cathy Antunes to discuss the US Garage building on…
so for those who aren't familiar uh the u.s garage building is on pineapple um but we're looking now in it at an older photo of the building from 1948 So this is why it's called U.S. Garage, right? Right.
And it was the car garage that the wealthy in Sarasota would store their cars at.
What made it particularly unique is it was maybe one of the first car elevators in all of Florida.
back then in Florida, getting cars to a second floor through an elevator was very unusual.
And this historic building is at the end of a historic district that most of Sarasota knows, which is Burns Court.
So this is really one of the anchors to that nationally recognized historic district.
US 41 Mound Street to Ringling Boulevard, which those are parallel to each other.
Ringling runs from the marina, you know, facing the bay through, gosh, it goes up to Robarts Arena.
And then of course, you know, Mound Street, US 41 goes up along the bay front, you know, I don't think right now on the second floor, it's office space, right?
so for those who aren't familiar uh the u.s garage building is on pineapple um but we're looking now in it at an older photo of the building from 1948 So this is why it's called U.S. Garage, right? Right.
And it was the car garage that the wealthy in Sarasota would store their cars at.
What made it particularly unique is it was maybe one of the first car elevators in all of Florida.
back then in Florida, getting cars to a second floor through an elevator was very unusual.
And this historic building is at the end of a historic district that most of Sarasota knows, which is Burns Court.
So this is really one of the anchors to that nationally recognized historic district.
US 41 Mound Street to Ringling Boulevard, which those are parallel to each other.
Ringling runs from the marina, you know, facing the bay through, gosh, it goes up to Robarts Arena.
And then of course, you know, Mound Street, US 41 goes up along the bay front, you know, I don't think right now on the second floor, it's office space, right?
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