The Mountain Lake Sanctuary
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Title
The Mountain Lake Sanctuary
Alternative Title
Mountain Lake Sanctuary
Subject
Bok Tower Gardens (Lake Wales, Fla.)
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930
Botanical gardens--Florida--Orlando
Bird sanctuaries
Carillons--United States
Description
Booklet about the Bok Tower Gardens published in 1950. Edward Bok retired to the town of Lake Wales, Florida. Bok set out a plan to establish a natural garden and bird sanctuary where people to visit to quietly enjoy nature.He engaged Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr. to design the grounds and asked architect Milton B. Medary to design and build a carillon tower. Lee Lawrie, a noted sculptor from New York, designed the elaborate marble sculpture that adorns the tower. Work was completed in 1928 and, on February 1, 1929, President Calvin Coolidge dedicated the sanctuary. Edward Bok died less than a year later in 1930 and was buried at the foot of the tower.
The tower and the carillon housed inside is Bok Tower Gardens' most distinctive feature. The carillon consists of sixty bells, ranging in size from 16 pounds to just under 12 tons. The bells are played like an organ with the keys connected to the clappers of each bell. Bok Tower has had only three regular carillonneurs in its more than 70 years. The sanctuary's first carillonneur was Anton Brees, serving as the only carillonneur from 1928 until 1967. Milford Myhre has been the resident carillonneur since 1968. William De Turk has been the assistant carillonneur since 1993. De Turk is also the librarian of the Anton Brees Carillon Library, which is reportedly the largest and most comprehensive carillon library in the world.
The tower and the carillon housed inside is Bok Tower Gardens' most distinctive feature. The carillon consists of sixty bells, ranging in size from 16 pounds to just under 12 tons. The bells are played like an organ with the keys connected to the clappers of each bell. Bok Tower has had only three regular carillonneurs in its more than 70 years. The sanctuary's first carillonneur was Anton Brees, serving as the only carillonneur from 1928 until 1967. Milford Myhre has been the resident carillonneur since 1968. William De Turk has been the assistant carillonneur since 1993. De Turk is also the librarian of the Anton Brees Carillon Library, which is reportedly the largest and most comprehensive carillon library in the world.
Creator
American Foundation Incorporated
Source
Original booklet by the American Foundation Incorporated: The Mountain Lake Sanctuary (United States of America: Edward Stern and Company Incorporated, 1950): Private Collection of Thomas Cook.
Publisher
Edward Stern and Company Incorporated
Date Created
1950
Date Copyrighted
1950
Contributor
Cook, Thomas
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original booklet by the American Foundation Incorporated: The Mountain Lake Sanctuary (United States of America: Edward Stern and Company Incorporated, 1950).
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Format
application/pdf
Extent
202 MB
Medium
22 page booklet
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Lake Wales, Florida
Spatial Coverage
27.935373, -81.57751
Temporal Coverage
1950-01-01/1950-12-31
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by the American Foundation Incorporated and published by the Edward Stern and Company Incorporated.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the American Foundation Incorporated and is provided here by RICHES of Central Floridafor educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
Curator
Cook, Thomas
Digital Collection
Source Repository
Private Collection of Thomas Cook
External Reference
"About Bok Tower Gardens," Bok Tower Gardens. http://boktowergardens.org/.
"Bok Tower Gardens," Floridata. http://www.floridata.com/tracks/GardenGallery/bok/bok1.cfm.
Bok Tower Gardens (Lake Wales, Fla.). Bok Tower Gardens. Lake Wales, Fla: Bok Tower Gardens Foundation, 1981.
Bok Tower Gardens (Lake Wales, Fla.). The Bok Tower Gardens Newsletter. Lake Wales, FL: The Gardens, 1980.
Smith, Margaret. The Edward Bok Legacy: A History of Bok Tower Gardens: The First Fifty Years. Lake Wales, Fla: Bok Tower Gardens Foundation, 2002.
External Reference Title
Transcript
THE MOUNTAIN LAKE SANCTUARY
FLORIDA
Photographs by
SANDERS
LAMBERT
MORSE
COPYRIGHTED 1950
THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY
EDWARD STERN AND COMPANY INCORPORATED
THE MOUNTAIN LAKE SANCTUARY
AND SINGING TOWER
were dedicated and presented
for visitation to the American People
by CALVIN COOLIDGE
President of the United States
February the First
MCMXXIX
Make you the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.
A PERSONAL FOREWORD
The inspiration for the Sanctuary and the Tower came of that stuff of which dreams are made. The two combined a dream ti carry on the work of my grandfather, who a hundred years ago transformed a grim desert island in the North Sea, ten miles from the Netherlands mainland, into a bower of green verdure and trees to which came the birds which made the island famed.
But an inspiration is of little value if it is not carried into realization, and I was fortunate to enlist the deep interest and sympathetic cooperation of two men who are responsible for what the visitor sees: Frederick Law Olmsted for the Sanctuary and Milton B. Medary for the Tower. Naturally, I could not have obtained two men more thoroughly fitted to give me what I wanted to present to the American people for visitation, and what has been so often called "The Taj Mahal of America"--a spot which would reach out in its beauty through the plantings, through the flowers, through the birds, through the superbly beautiful architecture of the Tower, through the music of the bells, to the people and fill their souls with the quiet, the repose, the influence of the beautiful, as they could see and enjoy it in the Sanctuary and through the Tower.
An incidentally it gave me a wonderful opportunity to follow and carry out the injunction of my grandmother to her children and grandchildren: "Wherever your lives may be cast, make you the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it."
That is the basis upon which the Sanctuary and the Tower rests.
Edward W. Bok
FLORIDA
Photographs by
SANDERS
LAMBERT
MORSE
COPYRIGHTED 1950
THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY
EDWARD STERN AND COMPANY INCORPORATED
THE MOUNTAIN LAKE SANCTUARY
AND SINGING TOWER
were dedicated and presented
for visitation to the American People
by CALVIN COOLIDGE
President of the United States
February the First
MCMXXIX
Make you the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.
A PERSONAL FOREWORD
The inspiration for the Sanctuary and the Tower came of that stuff of which dreams are made. The two combined a dream ti carry on the work of my grandfather, who a hundred years ago transformed a grim desert island in the North Sea, ten miles from the Netherlands mainland, into a bower of green verdure and trees to which came the birds which made the island famed.
But an inspiration is of little value if it is not carried into realization, and I was fortunate to enlist the deep interest and sympathetic cooperation of two men who are responsible for what the visitor sees: Frederick Law Olmsted for the Sanctuary and Milton B. Medary for the Tower. Naturally, I could not have obtained two men more thoroughly fitted to give me what I wanted to present to the American people for visitation, and what has been so often called "The Taj Mahal of America"--a spot which would reach out in its beauty through the plantings, through the flowers, through the birds, through the superbly beautiful architecture of the Tower, through the music of the bells, to the people and fill their souls with the quiet, the repose, the influence of the beautiful, as they could see and enjoy it in the Sanctuary and through the Tower.
An incidentally it gave me a wonderful opportunity to follow and carry out the injunction of my grandmother to her children and grandchildren: "Wherever your lives may be cast, make you the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it."
That is the basis upon which the Sanctuary and the Tower rests.
Edward W. Bok
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Original Format
22 page booklet
Collection
Citation
American Foundation Incorporated, “The Mountain Lake Sanctuary,” RICHES, accessed April 26, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/1024.