Get a feel for island life
[Times photo: Cherie Diez ]
Jeanie and Rick Pickwick are only the third owners of this 1940s cottage in Holmes Beach, with terra cotta tile floors and antiques and art gathered in their travels.
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By Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published March 1, 2003
THE TOUR: 10th annual Anna Maria Island Tour of Homes.
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 8.
WHERE: Anna Maria Island, Manatee County.
TICKETS: $15 on tour day at the Anna Maria Community Center, 407 Magnolia Ave., Anna Maria.
INFORMATION: Anna Maria Community Center, (941) 778-1908. WHAT ELSE: Island Tropical Treasures Luncheon at one of the tour homes; boutique; raffle of hand-stitched quilt, "Scenes from Paradise," created by the Eyeland Needlers.
DIRECTIONS: Cross the Sunshine Skyway bridge, follow U.S. 19 and take Business U.S. 41 south into Bradenton. (From Hillsborough, take U.S. 41 south into Manatee County and then Business 41.) Turn west on Manatee Avenue (State Road 64) and follow it toward the beaches. Once you're on Anna Maria Island, continue on Manatee, then turn right (north) on Gulf Drive. Follow it to Magnolia and the community center.
THE HOMES: The tour houses range from a 1940s beach cottage to a contemporary Spanish Mediterranean design. Another, built in 1989, appeared on the tour that year and since then the interior, exterior and gardens have been updated. A fourth home "feels like an elevated bungalow on the plains of North Africa." The fifth was one of the first homes built on Key Royale in Holmes Beach in 1965.
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