But once the city realized what type of a hut it was, they immediately rescinded their order. The structure, known as a "chickee" hut, is exempt from Florida Building Codes when it is built by ...

TARPON SPRINGS — Last fall, Indian Rocks architect Stephen J. Spencer built a chickee hut on stilts in the waters off Anclote Key. When Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials ...

A trust controlled by local architect Stephen J. Spencer is constructing a chickee hut without state or federal permits in shallow waters it owns near Anclote Key Preserve State Park. ...

A handful of workers marked out with tape where they will install an outdoor bar to complete the hut. “It never gets easier,” Osceola, 83, said of what will be the last chickee hut he builds ...

Around 2003, South Florida Free Beaches (SFFB) — a group that made Haulover a nude beach in 1991 — erected three chickee huts at the beach's entrance. Since then, Vance — the leader of ...

The requirement was rooted in Seminole Indian tradition, a growing-to-manhood ritual expected of all Seminole men: Jimmie had to construct the chickee hut where his future wife and he would live.

The Seminoles recently built a chickee hut behind the Bonita Springs Historical Society’s building on Old 41. The structure will be used for workshops and lectures, but it is also forging this ...

The proposal: Offer the homeless temporary housing in the form of cypress log and sabal palm chickee huts made by a Seminole-owned tiki hut company based in Broward County. Nearly six months after ...