At the end of our road, a long single-lane dead end, a notable home is coming down. Today, one of only a few remaining early 20th century properties left on Siesta Key, recently (discreetly) sold for 12 million. Another landmark, the historic home that was situated there, is now being demolished and slowly hauled away with little attention paid.
The property majestically juts out on an extended peninsula overlooking a large majority of Sarasota's Roberts Bay. The home, originally built in 1926 for Sarasota's first city mayor, A. B. Edwards, was designed by Dwight James Baum, the noted architect of John Ringling's Ca' d' Zan, and of Sarasota County's iconic Courthouse. At the time, the Sarasota Herald described the home as, "Palatial in Appearances."
The most recent owner, the prominent Sarasota attorney, David S. Band, refurbished and remodeled the existing structure in 2003.
