on the former Edith and Charles Ringling estate, that is included in the first historic district established by the city that extends south to include the Caples campus of the college. The campus also includes the eastern and western portions of a plated subdivision, The Uplands, an incorporated residential neighborhood that is bounded by College Drive to the south and the Seagate property to the north, Sarasota Bay to the west, and Tamiami Trail to the east. Half of the bayfront of the primary college campus is in The Uplands plat and during the original founding of New College The Uplands donated its bay front to New College to be kept as a natural preserve.
The campus's most remarkable structures are its three Florida 1920s boom time, grand-scale residences: College Hall was the home of Edith and Charles Ringling; Cook Hall was the home of Hester Ringling Lancaster Sanford; and the third, Caples Hall that was the home of Ellen and Ralph Caples. The well-appointed structures date from the early to mid-1920s, …
