Curtiss Mansion

This guide to Curtiss Mansion opens with Joe Namath's famous Super Bowl guarantee, made inside a house built by an equally bold man: aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, once sued by the Wright Brothers over a stolen wing design. You'll hear how Curtiss left airplanes behind to build Florida cities instead, raising this clay-tile, flat-roofed house in 1925 for his wife Lena, who nicknamed it the House of Happiness. Around it once stretched thirty acres and a lake stocked with flamingos he'd brought in himself.