25325 Marion Avenue

Part time resident George A. Barnhart, a master plumber from Baltimore, Maryland, owned this house.  He had it built in 1926.  The original part of the house was the kitchen.  It consists of two bedrooms on the first floor and one large room on the second floor.  Also, the living room, dining room, bathroom sun parlor were on the east side, and the kitchen.  Around 1954 it was left to one of his daughters, Lillian Mae Barnhart Ehrman Carter.  She then passed it to her son, Raymond M. Ehrman in 1986 around her death in 1986.  The house was then sold in 1997 to Lori Irons and her husband.  (Information supplied by Joan Ehrman, wife of Raymond M.)

326 Marion Avenue

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Punta Gorda's first city hall was a one-story concrete block building erected on this site on land deeded by Virginia Trabue, aged widow of the town's founder, IsaacTrabue, in return for abatement of taxes and life tenure of her nearby home.

The neoclassic design is dominated by a full height porch with a roof supported by classic columns.  The building was extensively damaged during Hurricane Ian and is still undergoing repairs a full year after.

121 East Marion Avenue - Smith Arcade

Built by Henry W. "Baker" Smith this unique structure is a forerunner of the enclosed mall shopping center.  The Arcade Building was the center of activity in Punta Gorda from 1926 to 1958.  During this period the U.S. Post Office was located in the building.  Residents made daily trips to the post office to receive their mail since the area did not have home delivery.  Also the Maxwell drug store, a small grocery store, a dentist's office, a radio repair business, a beauty parlor and a real estate office were located in the building.  It was a favorite activity to stop for ice cream while waiting for mail, probably in the drug store which had a soda fountain.  Today the Arcade is closed and the building houses the Perfect Caper Restaurant and a Florida Dept. of Correction state probation office.  

513 Palm Avenue

One of two houses built side by side to accommodate the railroad employees who worked for the railroad, which is now called the Seminole Gulf Railroad.  It was built in 1926 as a private residence in Mission/Spanish Colonial revival style.  Wood with shingles built on a continuous concrete foundation.  The roof is flat with a built-up front parapet.  The home is one story with an exterior fireplace.  

112 Sullivan Street

Commissioned by E.V. Babcock of Pittsburg and built by Cassius M. Carrier who was a "timber scout" who bought worked-out turpentine pines in Punta Gorda first for the Carrier, Babcock &  McLean Co. which became the Babcock Carrier Co. and eventually the Babcock Florida Co. which owned and operated the Crescent 'B' Ranch.  (currently the Babcock self-sufficient neighborhood). 

The house was designed by H.R. Stamm, architect for the redesign of the Hotel Punta Gorda to create the Hotel Charlotte Harbor for Barron Collier.  The same builder of the Hotel Charlotte Harbor, C.W. Byers built the Babcock House 

 In 1926 Carrier received a quit claim deed for this Sullivan Street lot and built what has become known as the Babcock House.  The Babcock family used it as their winter vacationing townhouse for many years. The only Italianate-designed structure in Punta Gorda shows multiple tall, narrow windows and an unusual floor plan.  The building houses the Yoga Sanctuary today.