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Article: One great room: a descendant of Alexander Hamilton lives with history.
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- Sarasota Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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WHEN SHEILA and Steve Hamilton retired to Manasota Key from a Frank Lloyd Wright house on 25 acres in the middle of a Tennessee peach orchard, they hoped to incorporate some of Wright's principles into their new waterfront home.
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"But FEMA regulations for flood elevations forced some major modifications," says Steve, an architecture and history buff whose great-great-great-great-grandfather was Federalist Party founder Alexander Hamilton and whose mother's family goes back to a brother of Daniel Boone.
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That said, it's no wonder the Hamiltons have incorporated bits of history throughout ...