On the way back from Sarasota, we visited Punta Gorda for lunch. Leaving town, we were stopped in our tracks when we came across a huge carved wooden head and a gorgeous yellow house.
The wooden statue is the Whispering Giant Calostimucu. In 1972 the Hungarian-born sculptor Peter Wolf Toth set out to carve big wooden statues of whispering giants and place at least one in each of the 50 states. This is Toth's tenth whispering giant, placed here in 1974 and restored by Toth in 2005.
I found a website that lists 57 Whispering Giants.
The statue stands beside the A. C. Freeman House, built by Augustus Freeman in 1903 in the Queen Anne style. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. Freeman was a successful businessman who also served as a tax collector, councilman, mayor, sheriff, and city commissioner. The house is now owned by the city of Punta Gorda and houses the historical society,
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