A report on Ca' d'Zan

Cà d'Zan - the bay front façade of the living room on the western elevation and marble terrace
Bay front façade of Ca' d'Zan
Detail of Ceiling Mural, Portrait of John and Mable Ringling, 3rd floor Playroom, Ca' d'Zan
Ringling Museum Cà d'Zan
Ringling Museum Cà d'Zan
Entrance foyer
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Mediterranean revival mansion in Sarasota, Florida, adjacent to Sarasota Bay.

- Ca' d'Zan
Cà d'Zan - the bay front façade of the living room on the western elevation and marble terrace

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Sarasota, Florida

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City in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

City in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

The Sarasota Ritz-Carlton
Asolo Repertory Theatre
Ca' d'Zan, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Bonnethead sharks seen at the Mote Marine Laboratory
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Sarasota County Courthouse
Palm Courts at the New College of Florida.
Golf being played at Sarasota in 1905
Lido Beach Pool in Sarasota, 1946
Aerial photo of Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport

A large number of homes and buildings are designed in the Italian style, especially Venetian as influenced by Ringling's Cà d'Zan.

John Ringling

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American entrepreneur who is the best known of the seven Ringling brothers, five of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Bros World's Greatest Shows to create a virtual monopoly of traveling circuses and helped shape the modern circus.

American entrepreneur who is the best known of the seven Ringling brothers, five of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Bros World's Greatest Shows to create a virtual monopoly of traveling circuses and helped shape the modern circus.

Ringling Brothers with Barnum & Bailey. John is pictured second from bottom.
The Cà d'Zan mansion in Sarasota was designed for Mable and John Ringling by Dwight James Baum and built by Owen Burns.

Ringling commissioned a 30-room mansion which was inspired by the Venetian Gothic palaces, designed by New York architect Dwight James Baum, and built by Owen Burns, It was completed in 1926 and named Cà d'Zan, "The House of John" in the Venetian dialect of Italian.

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Dwight James Baum

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American architect most active in New York and in Sarasota, Florida.

American architect most active in New York and in Sarasota, Florida.

United States Post Office, Flushing, New York
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University designed with John Russell Pope and constructed 1929–1930

His work includes Cà d'Zan, the Sarasota Times Building (1925), Sarasota County Courthouse (1926), early residences in Temple Terrace, Florida, Sarasota County Courthouse (1927), Pinecroft, West Side YMCA on 63rd Street between Central Park and Columbus Avenue, Columbus Circle (Syracuse, NY) (1934) and Hendricks Memorial Chapel.

Theatrical release poster

Great Expectations (1998 film)

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1998 American romantic drama film.

1998 American romantic drama film.

Theatrical release poster

Ca' d'Zan, an historic residence in Sarasota, Florida, was used for the exterior and parts of the interior of Paradiso Perduto. The mansion was built in 1924 by Mable and John Ringling. The façade was dressed to appear decrepit and overgrown, a gate was added to the avenue approaching the front, and the interior ballroom and loggia facing the waterfront terrace were also dressed for the dancing scenes.

Mable Burton Ringling

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Art collector who with her husband created the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Art collector who with her husband created the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

They called the house Cà d'Zan, meaning 'House of John'.