Florida

Florida

Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip Elwood takes students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. Shows stops at the Great Pier in St. Petersburg along with hibiscus and grapefruit orchards in the area.
From there they traveled to Coral Gables where they visited a Venetian pool with a refreshment porch and saw one of the formal entrances. It was then on to the Deering Estate in Coconut Grove.
From there it was on to Palm Beach via Ocean Drive where they visited Memorial Park, West Palm Beach patio gardens, The Everglades Club designed by Mr. Meisner, and saw the arcade of business street.

P. H. Elwood (Philip Homer), b. 1884

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1931

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