when the county experience renewed economic growth, the school was rewired in 1959 to allow for air conditioning and heating units. Osprey School survived without further improvement until June 1976, when it closed. Students in the area transferred to schools north or south of the community. In 1994, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building was used as the School Board’s Teacher Education until 1989. The building remained empty until 1995 when it became the visitor center for Historic Spanish Point, and the Sarasota County library system turned a part of the schoolhouse into the Osprey Public Library in 2011. References External links Oscar Scherer State Park Census-designated places in Sarasota County, Florida Beaches of Sarasota County, Florida Sarasota metropolitan area Census-designated places in Florida Populated places on the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida Beaches of Florida