542 Ohio Place

The residential structure at 542 Ohio Place, also known as the “J. Walter Taylor Family Home” was built in 1941 and is a modest very early Sarasota example of a Ranch Style House but strongly suggests the transitional nature of the architecture following the great prevalence and popularity of more simple Frame Vernacular structures seen during the first quarter of the century in Florida.

Ralph Twitchell, considered the father of the well-recognized Sarasota School of Architecture is said to have built the first Ranch Style home in Sarasota in 1940.  These early ranches most always had one-story with low-pitched roofs.

542 Ohio is locally designated as historic.