Anna Maria Historical Park brings together several early twentieth-century structures that reflect the city’s past. The Historical Society of Anna Maria Island Museum building was built in 1920 as an ice house at 402 Pine Avenue and was later used as city hall, the police department, a firehouse, and the Turtle House before the Society renovated it in 1992 to house memorabilia from the turn of the century to the present. Belle Haven Cottage was built in 1920 over the water to the right of what is now the City Pier Restaurant, fell into Tampa Bay six years later because of diseased pilings, was purchased by Lyman Christy in 1926, and was barged around the north point to Palmetto Avenue on the Gulf side of Anna Maria, where it remained for more than eighty years until the Society and the three island cities raised funds to move it to this site in 2001 after the land was sold to new owners. The cottage stands as an example of the Florida of earlier days amid the lush indigenous flora of an early barrier island. The City Jail was built in 1927 after a tavern-dance hall on the Gulf side of Pine Avenue created a need to confine drunken and disorderly offenders; Mitch Davis, Anna Maria’s first mayor, had a jail built with bars but no windows, and mosquitoes helped sober its inmates. A fire in the 1940s burned the wooden portion of the structure, and the remainder was preserved as a tourist attraction through the foresight of Harry Varley, founder of The Islander Newspaper.