Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip Elwood takes students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. Shows crossing the bay at St. Petersburg and on to Ft. Myers where Royal Palms line the streets. Also shows the hotel grounds, Edison Park, and the winter home of Thomas Edison.
From there they traveled to Coral Gables where they visited small gardens, Hotel Biltmore, and its swimming pool. It was then on to the Deering Estate in Coconut Grove where they saw the Italian details and the grounds of the winter home of Arthur Curtis James.
From there it was on north past a golf club and hotel and past Miami. They saw homes and gardens near Palm Beach, and visited West Palm Beach.
Philip H. Elwood films
