The Lucienne Nielsen House is a historic house in

Nokomis Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha's grandmother in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, ''The Song of Hiawatha'', which is a re-telling of the Nanabozho stories. Nokomis is ...

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. It was designed by

Ralph Twitchell Ralph Spencer Twitchell (July 27, 1890 – January 30, 1978) was one of the founding members of the Sarasota School of Architecture. He is considered the father of the group of modernist architecture practitioners, that includes Paul ...

for his wife and was built in 1956 in a

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style featuring expansive views of its surroundings.https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/065365f3-d699-4e9c-9515-b5c8a22f3ec5 It is located at 3730 Sandspur Lane. On March 21, 2007, it was added to the

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Sarasota County, Florida Houses completed in 1956 {{SarasotaCountyFL-NRHP-stub