This is the summer home of the Bartletts, one of the first houses in the Fort Lauderdale. Frederick and Evelyn Bartlett were both artists and designed and decorated the house to reflect their interests.
It is not very handicapped accessible. The parking lot is large enough for RVs but it’s surfaced with large loose gravel. The door threshold to the ticket building has a high lip. The path from the ticket building to the staging area, where the tour begins, is up a grade with loose gravel. If you have a car or van, ask about driving to this area.
The house is constructed with a center courtyard. All of the rooms have doors which open to a wide patio running around the entire house, facing to the courtyard. That means that there are many doorways, each with a step up from the patio. Some aren’t wide enough for most wheelchairs to fit through. The others are made accessible with two types of movable ramps – wooden and foldable metal ones. Most of them are a little too steep and don’t fit as flush as they should to the ground or the thresholds.
The staff is willing to help with everything but they may not know exactly what has to be done. We didn’t have trouble with any of this but we’re very used to maneuvering to overcome problems. An older woman on our tour, pushing her husband in a loaner wheelchair, had a hard time with many of the ramps. Bonnet House
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