7-600: Warm Mineral Springs Motel is a historic 1958 motel building near Warm Mineral Springs, Florida , in Sarasota County . It was designed by Victor Lundy , a member of the Sarasota School of Architecture . It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The motel is located at 12597 South Tamiami Trail . The motel is known for its mushroom champagne glass style roof and glass walls, allowing guests to see
14-455: A U-shaped plan (the remaining wing will be added shortly). Three of the so called shells were lifted up on higher columns of varying height to form the sign of the motel, as a free-standing piece of sculpture." The reception desk is original (from 1958). The pool area was added in 1990. Warm Mineral Springs, Florida Warm Mineral Springs is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County , Florida , United States. The population
21-473: Is land and 0.35 square miles (0.9 km ), or 13.33%, is water. As of the 2020 United States census , Warm Mineral Springs had a population of 5,442 with 2,775 households. The population density was 2,306.9 inhabitants per square mile (890.7/km ). The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.4% White , 0.9% African American , 0.9% Asian , and 1.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.0% of
28-523: The architects associated with the Sarasota School of Architecture , is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Warm Mineral Springs is located at 27°2′51″N 82°16′8″W / 27.04750°N 82.26889°W / 27.04750; -82.26889 (27.047440, -82.268902). According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 2.7 square miles (6.9 km ), of which 2.3 square miles (5.9 km )
35-445: The population. In the CDP, the population was spread out by age, with 1.8% under 5 years old, 4.3% under 18 years old, and 69.8% 65 years and over. The median income for a household in the CDP was $ 47,690. 10.8% of the population lived below the poverty threshold . 94.4% of the population 25 years and older were high school graduates or higher and 19.1% of that same population had a Bachelor's degree or higher. 89.4% of households had
42-685: The stars. It was selected by the American Institute of Architects for the 1958 Special Awards. Lundy wrote in a 1958 issue of The Florida Association of Architects : "I was searching for a form that would somehow symbolize the thought of the Fountain of Youth by a plastic flowing shape, that would also echo the organic growing shape of a tree. The answer came in the adoption of a structural system based on using precast concrete hyperbolic paraboloids , 14ft-5in square (from basic motel unit width-requirement, plus necessary overlap) in two heights arranged in
49-501: Was 5,442 at the 2020 census, up from 5,061 at the 2010 census. It is part of the North Port – Bradenton – Sarasota, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The Warm Mineral Springs locale is notable for a free-flowing artesian spring . A large portion of the area was annexed by the municipality of North Port , and is now part of that city. The Warm Mineral Springs Motel designed by modernist architect Victor Lundy , one of
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