DEP records show Spencer wrote a check for $10,000 to chickee hut builder William Johns of Hollywood on July 22, agreeing to pay him an additional $15,000 when the job was completed.

The Seminoles recently built a chickee hut behind the Bonita Springs Historical Society’s building on Old 41. ... most of Doc’s Beach House’s ground floor was destroyed.

'Chickee' hut gets approval. SHELBY WEBB. When it comes to tiki-type huts, the hands that build them can make the difference between a city violation and a no-hassle construction job.

Chickee shelters — thatched roofs with open sides and no floors — were developed by the Seminoles in the 1800s. The tribe had been living in log cabins, but during the Seminole wars they were ...

Workers needed only one more day here to complete a thatched canopy _ or chickee hut _ over the rear deck of a Brewmaster's Steakhouse. A party was planned, with University of South Florida ...

Chickee cross beams measure about 16 inches in diameter and the chickee’s poles, or legs, are about 10 inches across. The cypress is untreated but will last “indefinitely,” Osceola said.

CLERMONT — It took 13 members of the Seminole tribe six days to bring a little bit of authentic American Indian culture to downtown Clermont. A huge, L-shaped chickee hut, complete with hand ...

The chickee hut is in addition to about $560,000 in improvements made this year at the stadium. There’s more shade, spiffed up skyboxes, new sod and infield dirt and improved concession stands.

Leaders of South Florida Free Beaches and Florida Lifestyle Naturists agree the chickee huts at Haulover Beach attract crime. But they differ on how to fix the problem.

If chickee huts (open-walled, palm-roofed shelters) are available, that may be all you need. Or, maybe just a mosquito-net shelter to put inside the chickee hut.

Early on Thanksgiving morning, little Jean Paul Luciano trembled, cried and buried his face in his mother’s arms as flames engulfed the chickee hut outside his bedroom window, then spread to the ...