Pinewood Estate
| El Retiro | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| National Historic Landmark | |||
| Historic District Contributing Property | |||
 Northwest facade of the villa |
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| location | Lake Wales , Polk County , Florida . | ||
| Coordinates | 27 ° 56 '16.3 " N , 81 ° 34' 44.6" W | ||
| surface | 32,000 square meters | ||
| Built | from 1929 | ||
| architect | William Lyman Phillips , Charles Wait | ||
| Architectural style | Mediterranean Revival | ||
| NRHP number | 85003331 | ||
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| The NRHP added | December 12, 1985 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | April 19, 1993 | ||
| Declared as CP | April 19, 1993 | ||
Pinewood Estate (formerly called El Retiro and Encierro ) is a historic and Grade II listed property in Lake Wales , Florida . It is located on Florida State Road 17 , covers 32,000 square meters and has been a contributing property to the Bok Tower Gardens , a National Historic Landmark , since April 1993 .
history
Charles Austin Buck , member of the board of directors of the steel and shipbuilding group Bethlehem Steel , had the landscape architect William Lyman Phillips (1885-1966) draft a plan for a park with a residential building in 1929 . Phillips worked for the horticultural company Olmsted Brothers owned by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. , who designed the nearby Bok Tower Gardens . In 1930 Buck commissioned the architect Charles Wait to design a spacious Mediterranean- style villa ; The client was a fan of the Spanish-Italian way of life and wanted to design the property, then called El Retiro (Spanish: retreat), as a winter residence in this style. The 1200-square-meter building with 20 rooms received elements of ancient Italian villas with tiled roofs, tiles, carved doors and dark wood decorations in the interiors.
On the initiative of Nellie Lee Holt Bok, the daughter-in-law of the founder of Tower Bok Gardens , who died in 1930 , the property was acquired by the American Foundation (today: Bok Tower Gardens, Inc. ) in 1970 , after the swamp pines growing here . Longleaf Pine) was renamed Pinewood Estate and restored in the 1980s under the direction of Rudy Favretti . On December 12, 1985, the facility was listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
park
The property around the villa surprises with its eclectic variety. The small park of the property is kept in a formal, also Mediterranean style. The basic Italian structure includes a central and a transverse avenue of lemon trees . The terrace behind the building contains antique elements and overlooks a wild garden. Another, walled, small Victorian garden shows echoes of the chinoiserie of Europe with a moon gate , and also contains impressionistic elements in the color style of Gertrude Jekyll's garden art.
museum
Today the property is used for guided tours. Volunteer guides show groups of up to twelve people the rooms of the house, the furnishings of which have largely been preserved from the time it was used by Buck. The antique furniture had been imported by Buck from France, Italy and Spain.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b National Register of Historic Places: Florida - Polk County , see: El Retiro, # 85003331 (in English)
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↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Florida. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.
Rebecca Spain Black: National Historic Landmark Nomination: Bok Tower Gardens. In: National Register Information System. National Park Service October 9, 1992, accessed August 27, 2019 (461 kB), p. 4. - ^ John H. Russell, Thomas S. Spencer, Gardens Across America, East of the Mississippi: The American Horticulatural Society's Guide to American Public Gardens and Arboreta , Volume 1, ISBN 978-1-46173-3-669 , Taylor Trade Publishing , 2005, p. 56 (in English)
- ↑ a b Faith Reyher Jackson, Pioneer of Tropical Landscape Architecture: William Lyman Phillips in Florida , University Press of Florida, 1997, p. 110 (in English)
- ^ El Retiro in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 8, 2017.
- ^ Paul Bennett, The Garden Lover's Guide to the South , ISBN 978-1-56898-164-2 , Princeton Architectural Press , 2000, p. 118 (in English)
- ↑ Ole Helmhausen, Baedeker SMART Travel Guide Florida: Perfect Days in the Sunshine State , ISBN 978-3-82978-1-138 , MairDumont , 2015, p. 90
Web links
- Website of the Bok Tower Gardens (in English)