Bok Tower Gardens

This guide to Bok Tower Gardens traces Edward Bok's path from a six-year-old Dutch immigrant in Brooklyn to editor of the era's biggest magazine, and the promise from his grandmother that sent him searching for the highest hill in central Florida. It follows the team he assembled, including landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., architect Milton Medary, and sculptor Lee Lawrie, plus the English foundry that cast the carillon's bronze bells. President Calvin Coolidge dedicated the finished tower in February 1929, with Bok standing where you are now.