400 Palmetto Ave., Osprey, Florida. County/parish: Sarasota.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 03, 2012. NRIS 11001077.
5 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
Waters and Elsa Burrows Historic District is a U.S. historic district in Osprey, Florida south of Sarasota in Sarasota County. It includes the Bay Preserve at Osprey on Little Sarasota Bay. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 3, 2012.
The property was next to one owned by Bertha Palmer. Elsa Maria Scherer Burrows donated the land across U.S. 41 that became Oscar Scherer State Park, named for her father, a leather tanning businessman who immigrated from Germany. Her residence was acquired by a surgeon from New York City.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77843928