El Patio Apartments, Mission Revival apartment building in Sarasota, Florida.
El Patio Apartments is an apartment building at 500 North Audubon Place in Sarasota, Florida. It is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, added on May 6, 1993. The sources record no further details about its design, materials or layout.
El Patio Apartments at 500 North Audubon Place was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1993. The listing recognizes the Sarasota apartment building as a historic site; the sources consulted give no construction date, architect or style for it.
The name El Patio refers to the courtyard around which the apartments are arranged, a layout tied to Spanish Mediterranean housing traditions. The building's listing on the National Register in 1993 recognized it as a documented example of Sarasota's historic residential stock, and its address at 500 North Audubon Place places it within the city's early twentieth-century street grid.
The building sits in an established residential neighborhood of Sarasota and is visible from the street, allowing for external viewing. Visitors should remember this is an occupied apartment building and respect for residents is necessary.
El Patio Apartments was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1993, an entry that rests on the building's documented historic character rather than on its courtyard. The listing covers the property at 500 North Audubon Place in Sarasota, Florida.
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