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Seminole Lodge (1886), winter home of Thomas Alva Edison, shipped precut from Maine. Architect: Alden Frink.
| Compound of Edison Houses.
| Seminole Lodge.
| Parlor of Edison's Seminole Lodge.
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Fireplace in Edison's Seminole Lodge.
| Dining room in Edison's Seminole Lodge.
| Edison's mounted fish at Seminole Lodge.
| Staircase at Seminole Lodge.
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View from porch of Seminole Lodge.
| Henry Ford's & Thomas Edison's winter homes were neighbors.
| Horse wagon with citrus at Edison Winter Estate.
| Original ranch buildings which stood on estate when Edison purchased property in 1885.
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Caloosahatchee River & Edison's dock.
| Palms & flowers on Edison Winter Estate.
| Mysore Fig (Ficus mysoriensis) part of the botanical gardens at Edison Winter Estate.
| Mysore Fig roots, one of many trees imported in Edison's quest for a rubber substitute.
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Bamboo growing on the Edison Estate, the reason Edison bought the property, since he was experimenting with bamboo as a source of filaments for electric light bulbs.
| Rubber tree (Ficus elastica), one of many trees imported in Edison's quest for an American rubber substitute.
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