The white building with the striped white and green awning at U.S. 41 South (Cross Street) and Marion Avenue has a long, colorful history.
Now home to the newly opened Be-YOU-tiful Boutique on the ground floor, the structure dates back to 1886, when Punta Gorda was still named Trabue.
It was built by Ephraim Goldstein, who operated one of the town’s earliest general merchandise stores here, later a furniture store…