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It's a mansion, it's a museum, it's an incredible array of gardens and grounds, and it's the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and the general estate that could likely be close enough to your Sarasota apartments to visit soon. The mansion is the former home of John Ringling, one of the original founders and chief promoter of the Ringling Brothers Circus and his wife Mable. The couple, while amassing a fortune from John's success in the circus, collected many beautiful pieces of furniture and artwork to decorate their mansion of a home on the Sarasota Bay, as well as artwork for a future planned museum. A bit larger than most Sarasota apartments, 56 rooms with beautiful furnishings inhabits the monster-sized house made in the Venetian Gothic Style of architecture in 1924. The house is 200 feet long and has 15 bathrooms, is five stories and encompasses about 36,000 square feet! The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, part of the property, is a huge and monumental edifice that houses masterpiece artworks from Rubens, El Greco, van Dyck, Velazquez, Veronese and more. Paintings, sculpture and furniture are represented here. And if you think living in Sarasota apartments is a circus, you'll have to compare it to the real circus at the circus museum on the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art campus. Costumes, a rail car and a miniature circus are all featured in the museum space, another architectural wonder. Two restaurants are here at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, so that means that you don't have to prepare lunch or cook dinner at your apartment the evening after your visit. Two restaurants, Treviso, offering sophisticated food and the Banyon Café, a family style restaurant, are open all day, 10 am to 4 pm. The gardens here only extend and enhance the beauty of the mansion and art museum. Extensive varieties of roses inhabit the over 27,000 square feet of the Rose Garden, and named the best public rose garden in the country in 2006. Mable's Secret Garden is another attraction that features bromeliads, violets and Bougainvillea. Other beautifully maintained gardens that you won't find at any Sarasota apartments are the Dwarf Garden and the Millennia Tree Trail. The rather hefty $25 admission charge for adults is well worth it for John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art apartment dwellers, as you can spend almost an entire day visiting the museums and the mansion and grounds.