"Moderns That Matter: Through the Decades - the 1920s & 1930s"

Moderns That Matter: Through the Decades - the 1920s & 1930s

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

5:30pm-6:30pm

McCulloch Pavilion, 265 S Orange Avenue

Parkin available in the lot East of the Pavilion & South of Morrill Street

About the Series

The Moderns That Matter: Through the Decades Series is based on the exhibition Moderns That Matter: The Sarasota 100 installed at Architecture Sarasota’s McCulloch Pavilion since March 2024. Join our Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Christopher Wilson, as he takes a deeper dive into the individual decades of the exhibition and makes them come alive. Learn more about the exhibition’s featured buildings as well as other Sarasota buildings from the same time period and the development of the city since its founding.

THE 1920s

Explore the early history of Sarasota and the development of its built environment, including its early access primarily by boat only and the breakaway of Sarasota County from Manatee County in 1921. This decade literally put Sarasota “on the map” as it began to establish itself as a tourist destination, despite the Florida Land Boom Crash of 1926.

THE 1930s

Explore how Sarasota quietly further develops its reputation as a tourist destination, despite the lingering effects of the 1929 Wall Street Crash and subsequent Great Depression, building much infrastructure that continues to serve the city almost 100 years later.

Host or Publisher Architecture Sarasota