Tag: Boca Grande Historic District

Business & Real Estate: Boca Grande Historic District non-compliance reporting guidelines

April 17, 2025
Staff Report
News, Real Estate

Recently, some residents have had questions to the Beacon about a new fence built in the Boca Grande Historic District just off Gilchrist, on the beachfront. The lattice fence has not gone through...

Architect’s model proves scale issue to Preservation Board

A house model, and last-minute updates to a design, helped to make the case that an island residence’s additions would be appropriate in scale to the Boca Grande Historic District. The...

Question on whether awning and window treatment is ‘historic’

Four residential projects, as well as a commercial façade improvement, will come in front of the next meeting of the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 12, at...

1925 Anchor Inn reopens after renovation

Waltons-like porch on 4th The Anchor Inn, after a full renovation this fall, will reopen to guests this weekend. Its first guests are reported to be a newlywed couple. While the...

The old 7th Street boathouse may be no more

January 18, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY SUE ERWIN There was only one item on the agenda at the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board’s meeting on Wednesday morning, but it unsheathed plenty of discussion. The proposal was to...

Park Avenue reno given ‘ok’ by Historic Preservation Board

May 11, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY SUE ERWIN There was just one item on the agenda at the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Society monthly meeting held on Wednesday, May 9, and the Board approved it unanimously. Many know it...

The Gasparilla Island Act: Part III Measuring buildings and making amendments

September 1, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ BY SUSAN HANAFEE Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles about the forces that have shaped development in Boca Grande and on Gasparilla Island. It’s a scene from the early 1980s...