Willis R. Biggers was an architect in

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during the early 20th century. He designed the Citrus County Courthouse with

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and the original

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, which is now a community center. The old Sarasota High School building (1912) was also designed by Biggers, though the school moved to a new building on the South Tamiami Trail in 1926. The old building was used as a library until the Chidsey Library was built in 1940 and was used as a youth center and as a

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sewing room during

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. It was demolished in the late 1950s.

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