Heading: (Mountain Lake Florida)
Author:
Title: Mountain Lake, Florida: A private park of thirty-five hundred acres, in the beautiful ridge and lake country, with residential club-house and eighteen-hole golf course
Place Published: [Baltimore]
Publisher:[The Lord Baltimore Press]
Date Published: [1927-28]
Description:

[32] unnumbered pages. Illustrated throughout from photographs; map of Florida; folding "Preliminary Plan Mountain Lake, Polk County, Florida" showing the lots available and the golf course. 20.3x26.5cm (8x10½"), blue saddle-stitched wrappers additionally bound with cord.

Scarce promotional booklet for this planned Florida community, north of the City of Lake Wales, Florida, United States. It was founded in 1915 and contains a golf course designed in 1916 by Seth Raynor. Mountain Lake is located in the ridge country of Central Florida, and was developed by Baltimorean Frederick Ruth. With proximity close to trains from the North which would bring residents down for 'the season', Ruth assembled 3500 acres and engaged Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to lay out 600 acres of the property for the residences and Seth Raynor to design the golf course. This same trio also went on to design and develop Fishers Island in the 1920s. There are some notes in the archives at Mountain Lake that Ruth spoke to Donald Ross (who did nearby Lake Wales Country Club) prior to selecting Raynor, however Raynor was chosen and Mountain Lake became the first development of its kind. OCLC/WorldCat has five listings of the booklet with various paginations and dates, but only one in the present iteration, that held by the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Mild toning and light wear to wrappers; near fine internally.