A Circus Fortune Built This Venetian Mansion with Marble Bathtubs, 24-Karat Gold Fixtures, and Views Over Sarasota Bay

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The Ca’ d’Zan, Sarasota

Ca’ d’Zan looks like someone dropped a Venetian palace into Florida.

That someone was circus tycoon John Ringling, who filled his ‘House of John’ with $1.5 million worth of European art, secret passages, and a private elevator just for bringing up bootlegged liquor during Prohibition…

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