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Floyd V. Wuerth is an American Architect. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1890. He had an heart attack in 1965 and passed away at the age of 75. He was married to Rosa A. Wuerth who was also born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Floyd V. Wuerth was an architect and contractor in Ann Arbor, Michigan while his wife was a nurse. Some of the houses he has built in Ann Arbor still exist. When they moved to Florida, Floyd V. Wuerth and his wife knew that they were in their element. He built the Florosa Apartments at the corner of 5th Avenue and 8th Street North in St Petersburg, Florida. "Florosa" is the addition of their first names, Floyd and Rosa. On that original property was a bungalow which he moved to the South Side in order to build the Florosa. The bungalow has belonged to the Fox Family of Twentieth Century Fox. He built a garage apartment at the rear of this house where his mother lived. In 1950 Floyd V. Wuerth built a beautiful house for his wife. This house is located in Old South East in St Petersburg, Florida. It kept its original "sawtooth" Windows and a very speacial feature in the living room. Wherever he lived he always put a fish pond. Beside working for Frank Lloyd Wright and being inspired by his work, Floyd V. Wuerth had many Advanced ideas. One of them was to build a multi-unit edifice called "El Caracas" in Passe-a-Grille in the City of Saint Petersburg Beach, Florida.

After he passed away, Rosa A. Wuerth came back to Ann Arbor. She had been very active in the Business and Professional Women's Club in Saint Petersburg.