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SIESTA KEY - Joe King could not restore his beloved Twitchell house to the way Sarasota School Architects designed it, nor could he keep the home in the same spot.
So he did the next best thing.
He documented that the historic house stood steps from Big Pass on Siesta Key. He photographed it inside and out, created detailed drawings of the building that is among the first in the Sarasota School of Architecture and the first by architectural great Paul Rudolph.
King and a work crew carefully took it apart, sorting through different crowbars for the ones that would not crack the cypress, salvaging Ocala block that had not cracked under 66 years of weathering.
Then he shipped what could be salvaged to Bradenton.