Crisp Building

	Crisp Building
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1970 Main St., Sarasota, Florida
Coordinates	27°20′11″N 82°31′54″W / 27.33633°N 82.53158°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1926
Built by	Adair & Sentor
Architect	Clas & Shepherd
Architectural style	Mediterranean Revival
NRHP reference No.	00000388
Added to NRHP	April 21, 2000

The Crisp Building is a historic office building at 1970 Main St. in Sarasota, Florida. The T. H. Crisp Company, a developer led by Thomas H. Crisp, constructed the building in 1926. The Crisp Company built many of Sarasota's homes and residential developments in the 1920s and 1930s. The building has also served as a meeting hall for Sarasota's chapter of the Loyal Order of Moose. The building was designed in the Mediterranean Revival style and is one of the best-preserved examples of the style in downtown Sarasota.^[2]

It was designed by Clas & Shepherd and was built by contractors Adair & Sentor.^[3]

Its original windows were replaced by aluminum ones in 1990. Upper floor interiors were modified in the 1970s; the first floor was renovated during 1990-98.^[3] On April 21, 2000, the building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.^[1]

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References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "The Crisp Building". Sarasota History Alive!. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
^ ^a ^b National Register of Historic Places Registration: Crisp Building / SO2559 (Report). NARA. Retrieved September 17, 2022. Downloading may be slow.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] "The Crisp Building". Sarasota History Alive!. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved January 21, 2014.

[nrhpdoc-3] National Register of Historic Places Registration: Crisp Building / SO2559 (Report). NARA. Retrieved September 17, 2022. Downloading may be slow.

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