A historical home that once belonged to a Leonard Reid, who helped establish Sarasota's first black community is being moved to a place where it will serve as an African American Cultural Center.
SARASOTA- The historic home of one of Sarasota’s first black property owners and right-hand man of Sarasota’s first mayor is being moved overnight so it can be preserved and revived. The H
Leonard Reid's house in Sarasota, Florida, will move to a new location on Orange Avenue at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Newtown early Friday morning.
History was literally on the move in Sarasota during the overnight hours as crews drove the Leonard Reid house from its original spot in Newtown to a new location to be part of the African American Cultural Arts Center.
After it arrives from the Rosemary District to its new site in Newtown, the home of the "right-hand man" to Sarasota's first mayor will become home to a new Sarasota African American cultural center.