2272 Wason Road
Sarasota, FL 34231

Bob Plunket writes in Sarasota Magazine:

Today few Sarasotans are familiar with Wason Bayou along the Phillippi Creek, opposite The Landings on the South Trail. But back in the old days, the spot was well known to hunters, and during Prohibition rumrunners unloaded their cargo there. In 1940, New Hampshire Congressman Edward Wason built an estate on the bayou, and against all odds, it still survives. Painstakingly restored and enlarged by its present owners in 1998, it represents an almost vanished slice of Florida life, when wealthy Northerners built winter homes that may have been in the tropics but still had a hint of the New England woods and a timeless Yankee aesthetic.