Bonnet House, a popular Fort Lauderdale tourist draw and wedding venue, to stay in local hands

Artist Frederic Clay Bartlett and his second wife, Helen Louise Birch, began construction of the house in 1920. Bartlett’s third wife, Evelyn Fortune Bartlett, donated the estate to the Florida Trust in 1983. But she made it clear the trust should do its own fundraising and not rely on Bonnet House.