As an organization, Architecture Sarasota “stewards the legacy of the Sarasota School of Architecture and provides a forum for the education, advocacy and celebration of good design in the global built environment,” according to its mission statement.
As the future owner of the building it occupies at 261-265 S. Orange Ave. — McCullough Pavilion — the organization will be a steward of its own historic property.
Built in 1960, the approximately 7,000-square-foot building on nearly a half-acre has been home to a variety of uses including Barkus Furniture Co. and the office of its architects, William Rupp and Joseph Farrell, which now is the office of Architecture Sarasota President Marty Hylton…