Draft:Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center

connected to William R. Frizzell Cultural Centre?

Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center

The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center (SBDAC), also known as the Davis Art Center, is in Fort Myers, Florida. A 23,000-square-foot neoclassical building, it was formerly a courthouse and post office.

It opened in 1923 as a post office. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford got mail at the building. It was renovated into a federal courthouse in 1965. It closed in 1998 after a new courthouse was built. In 2003 it was acquired via $1 a year 99-year lease for use as an arts venue, reopening in 2008.