Great houses of Florida
(Book)

Houses: Key West: Audubon House, Hemingway House, Truman Little White House; Miami: Charles Deering estate, TheBarnacle, Merrick House, Vizcaya, El Jardin, The Kampong; Fort Lauderdale: Stranahan House, Bonnet House; Sarasota: Cà d'Zan; Ellenton: Gamble Plantation; Fort Myers: Edison and Ford Winter Estates; Tampa: La Casita--Cigar Maker's House; Lake Wales: Pinewood; Winter Park: Casa Feliz, Albin Polasek House; Orlando: Leu House; Ocoee: Withers-Maguire House; Deland: DeLand House, Stetson Mansion, Stetson University President's House, DeBary Hall; Cross Creek: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House, St. Augustine: González-Alvarez House, Ximénez-Fatio House, Peña-Peck House; Tallahassee: Goodwood, Knott House, Governor's Mansion; Bristol: Gregory House; Apalachicola: Orman House, Raney House; Point Washington: Wesley Mansion, Historic Pensacola Village: Charles Lavalle House, George Barkley House, Dorr House, Lear-Rocheblave House.

Includes Directory of Houses.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-269) and index.

"Great Houses of Florida presents forty of the greatest and most intriguing historical houses of the state, including John and Mabel Ringling's fabulous Venetian Palazzo Ca d'Zan in Sarasota, James Deering's spectacular Italianate Villa Vizcaya in Miami, and the Audubon and Hemingway houses in Key West, and the notable domestic architecture of eighteenth-century St. Augustine. With new color photography, this book provides a rare look into the finest houses from the state that both adventurous pioneers and America's extravagant upper classes have called home."--BOOK JACKET.