Thomas Reed Martin

Martin was the son of William Davidson Martin and Myra Martin. His family was part of the construction business for generations. He graduated from high school in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, he moved with his family to Chicago in 1883. Thomas married Sadie W. Coffin on February 19, 1890. They had three sons and a daughter. In the 1930s he and an unrelated architect, Clarence Augustine Martin who had retired to Sarasota after serving as Dean of the Architecture School at Cornell University, were the architects for the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium. It was a federal economic stimulus project. ==Some Florida designs==

• William J. Burns House, St. Armands Key (NRHP listed) • Case House, in Sarasota (NRHP listed) • Columbia Restaurant, in Tampa • Lemon Bay Woman's Club • Hacienda Hotel (NRHP listed), in New Port Richey • Roth Cigar Factory, in Sarasota (NRHP listed) • Municipal Auditorium (also known as Sarasota Exhibition Hall) with Clarence A. Martin, a 1930s Works Progress Administration, in Sarasota (NRHP listed) • L. D. Reagin House, in Sarasota (NRHP listed) • Bacheller-Brewer Model Home Estate, in Sarasota (NRHP listed) • H. B. William House, in Sarasota (NRHP listed) • Chidsey Library, in Sarasota (NRHP listed) ==References==