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New College of Florida's shoreline on Sarasota Bay is graced now with a newly constructed dock, an intertidal lagoon and a seawall that has been restored with a more historically accurate pink balustrade modeled after the original seawall built for circus magnate Charles Ringling in 1925-26. The State of Florida funded the project to repair the original seawall, which was on the verge of catastrophic collapse after weathering tides and storms for almost 90 years. This area of New College's campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Caples'-Ringlings' Estates Historic District, which includes the Charles Ringling Mansion (College Hall), the Hester Ringling Sanford Mansion (Cook Hall), Caples Mansion on New College's Caples Campus, and Ca' d'Zan at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Read More
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