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REAL HISTORY: Sarasota s first two luxury hotels Part I: Mira Mar
Andrew McAnsh s Mira Mar Apartments, hotel and casino offered the essential ingredient for Sarasota to be a go-to city.
Jeff LaHurd
This is the first of a 2-part series
No matter how beautiful a Florida community happened to be, visitors would do no more than pass thru without proper lodging to prompt them to stay. In Sarasota, which offered all the essential ingredients to be a go-to city, the lack of first-class accommodations was a glaring deficit.
Enter Andrew McAnsh, a Scot by way of Chicago who came for a visit in the early 1920s, just before that eras real estate boom was about to skyrocket.