When you visit "Seminole Lodge," you enter a world unlike any you have ever seen. The inventive genius of Edison is evident throughout his 14-acre riverfront estate.
Circling the homes are large overhanging porches, which, combined with French doors on the first floor, provide a cool breeze through the home at all times.
In the early 1900s, Mr. Edison built one of Florida's first swimming pools with cement from his own Edison Portland Cement Company. It still holds water today! Mr. Edison used the water from an artesian well to fill the pool and irrigate the botanical gardens.
On March 6, 1947, Mrs. Edison donated the estate to the City of Fort Myers and in November of that year, public touring of the estate began.
