This house was built for the Wotitzky family in 1890. From Austria and Czechoslovakia, Jacob Wotitzky came to open a dry goods store, the Wotitzky General Merchandise Store, in 1886. His wife Rosa and two children joined him from New York where they had been staying with relatives. some 2 years later. He extended his trade by peddling wares from the schooner "Mollie O" among coastal customers throughout Charlotte Harbor and Southwest Florida.
