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Sarasota News Leader February 15, 2013 Page 75 right here [in Sarasota���s Pioneer Park], with ���It���s what people coming here want, the Mizporches all the way around and a hallway run- ener Mediterranean,��� Robbins replied. ning through.��� ���I personally feel I would like to have enough money to buy a ���mega mansion��� and tear it This style is also called Frame Vernacular. down and put up a two-bedroom house,��� said ���They built this way because they had to,��� Jen- LaHurd. nings said. ���You needed shade and breeze.��� While the Sarasota School of Architecture But by the 1920s, and the John Ringling circus and the modern architecture movement blosera, things began to change. somed in the 1940s and 1950s, perhaps the greatest impact on Sarasota was the middle ���What people think of as the Florida house is class��� ���production houses, or atomic ranchthe Mediterranean Revival [style],��� Jennings es, also called Mid-Century Modern,��� Jennings said, adding that he felt people such as Ringsaid. These were built in Sarasota by the thouling and the circus entrepreneur���s architect, sands. Dwight James Baum; then architect Ralph Twitchell, who was known as one of princi- Plunket brought things to a close with one pal members of the Sarasota School of Archi- question for the panel: What does the near tecture, all followed the example of Addison future hold for Sarasota real estate? Mizener on the East Coast. Robbins responded, ���I think it looks very rosy. ���Ninety-nine percent of the market went Mediterranean Revival,��� Jennings said. ���They had to create an architecture that created a mystique, made a place look historic and stable. Ca��� d���Zan [the Ringling bayfront mansion] is the epitome of the faux ornamentation��� common in houses of that period, he added. Sarasota is such a unique, special place. We are seeing increases in our property values.��� Plunket asked the panelists if the plethora of homes of that style diminished the quality of the community���s architecture, referring to the Mediterranean houses as ���numbingly similar.��� The Crocker Church is located in Pioneer Park, 1260 12th St., Sarasota. It is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 364-9076. % ���All the trend lines are pointing up, in residential since late 2009, and commercial has been pointing up since late 2012,��� Jennings added. ���In real estate, I subscribe to the pendulum theory: It will come back as sure as you are Jennings quoted Mizener: ���I sometimes start sitting there,��� LaHurd said. a house with a Romanesque corner [and] pre- The Conversations at the Crocker will contend it has fallen into disrepair and been add- tinue Tuesday, March 12, with the program, ed onto in the Gothic spirit when suddenly the Why We Look The Way We Do: a discussion of great wealth of the New World [was] poured architectural styles that characterize Sarasointo it and the owners added a very rich Re- ta. The moderator will be Harold Bubil, real naissance addition.��� estate editor of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.