Edison and Ford Winter Estates

“ Tucked along the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, this remarkable site preserves the winter retreats of two American icons.

Thomas Edison’s Seminole Lodge, built in the late 1880s, and Henry Ford’s neighboring bungalow, The Mangoes, are now part of a thirty-acre living museum—complete with the original botanical research lab, lush tropical gardens, and a museum filled with inventions and early automobiles

These estates are a collision of genius and leisure, preserved in subtropical light. You walk the same gardens where experiments turned into industry, and step into rooms where some of America’s biggest ideas were passed around over cigars.

It’s equal parts museum, time capsule, and reminder that Florida has always been a testing ground for visionaries bold enough to build something new. ”