Venice Public Beach is easily accessible from anywhere in Venice and is a great place to spend the day with the family at the beach. Located right near the heart of Venice, at the very end of Venice Avenue, this public beach is always posted with lifeguards during the summer months and makes a prime spot to bring young children who may need an extra set of eyes while playing in the water. The Venice Public Beach park also offers concession stands, restrooms, picnic tables and even sand volleyball courts, making this an excellent place to enjoy a day in the sun with the entire family.

The beach is only 6 acres in size but definitely reigns as one of the most popular beaches in Venice, with easy access to downtown, to Harbor Drive and to the Venetian Walkway Park. This is also a wonderful place to pick up fossilized shark’s teeth if you are not interested in heading all the way down to Casperson Park, or want to stay in range of the lifeguards. Local divers know Venice Public Beach as a good place to dive for shark fossils. There is also a reef contained other fossilized materials, sand dollars and a great view of the fish, about a quarter mile off the shore, so many experienced divers or sorcerers like to use Venice Public Beach as a starting point.

Surprisingly, although Venice Public Beach offers several amenities like playgrounds and lifeguards to keep the children safe, it is not super crowded. Especially if you arrive early in the day there is amble opportunity to find parking spots and there is always a place to set up camp on the beach for a day in the sun. Venice Public Beach is the most accessible from Venice Avenue. If you come over the Venice Avenue Bridge or the US-41 Bypass, Venice Avenue is one of the first streets you will see or just stay on Venice Avenue from the Venice Avenue Bridge. Take Venice Ave. all the way down and you will meet the shoreline and Venice Public Beach.

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Venice is often referred to as an old railroad town but coming over the Venice Avenue Bridge to the Venice Beach area, an old railroad town is the furthest thing from your mind. Your first impressions will instead be something of awe at the beautifully preserved splendor of the coastal town. There is the reminder of a quieter, simpler time as many of the historical buildings and the architectural heritage of Venice remain from the early 1920s and even before.

The original architectural plans of Venice where to mimic a Northern Italy town and local residents and area historians have made a conscious effort to keep these plans intact. Right now the Venice Historical Commission is working on saving the oldest home in Venice, a building that supersedes the majority of Venice buildings that have remained or been restored from the 1920s. Constructed in 1896 and originally located at Stone Grove citrus fields, the home was first moved to 811 Laguna Drive in the 1950s so that the railroad tracks could be continued through the citrus fields. The home, now affectionately called the “Lord House” by local historians, is scheduled to move in the summer of 2005 by the city of Venice, to a location owned by the city on Granada Avenue near City Hall. The home sat on the Laguna Drive land near Roberts Bay since the 1950s and was always maintained by private owners, but the city stepped in to save the home because the most recent private owner wanted to tear down the home to build a new house on the lot. Many local residents with historical ties to the area like Ron Higel, whose ancestor Frank Higel named the city “Venice” because it reminded him of Venice, Italy where he was raised, wanted to see the home preserved because he lived in the home at one time and helped to move it in the 1950s.

Costs of moving the home are estimated at around $60,000 to $80,000 with renovations near 1 million dollars. Once renovations are complete this will be a wonderful historical gem open to visitors, which further displays local Venetians desires to preserve the history and beauty of their town.

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