In July 1915 Harry Higel persuaded the U.S. government that Siesta Key needed a post office. First Post Office On Siesta Key Was Located Inside Harry Higel's Higelhurst Hotel, Mail Delivered to Island by the Boat 'Siesta'. See Harry Higel's billboard ad for "Choice Lots Siesta" to the left of shack on the waterfront dock linked to Higelhurst Hotel in photo above. Harry Higel operated the first Siesta Key Post Office inside the Higelhurst Hotel that Harry Higel had built in 1915. Tampa Tribune article of August 3rd, 1915 indicated the first Post Office on Siesta Key was located inside Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel's Higelhurst Hotel. When Rube Allyn burned down the Hotel on March 30th, 1917 (arson) it was a Federal crime, why no investigation, where was the US Marshall? Margaret O'Berry of Tampa was the first postmistress at Siesta not Heey Higel who was way too busy with his Hotel and selling beach front lots. US GOVT: A post office was established on Sie...