Dr. Joseph Halton House is a historic home at 308 Cocoanut Avenue in Sarasota, Florida. This is the building whose name you see on registers and in local memory, officially recognized when it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on March 22, 1984. As you look at the façade before you, imagine the care that comes with a structure deemed significant enough for that federal list, and appreciate the simple fact that this house is part of Sarasota’s preserved past.
You are close enough to read the address and to feel a quiet connection to the continuity of place it represents here on Cocoanut Avenue. Let the name—Dr. Joseph Halton House—anchor your sense of history for this block, and let the date of its National Register listing remind you that this recognition is part of its story. Notice the scale and presence of this home at 308 Cocoanut Avenue, now part of Sarasota's preserved past.