On the shore of Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland, one of America's most famous architects built an entire college campus out of an orange grove.
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In 1938, the president of Florida Southern College, Ludd Spivey, invited Frank Lloyd Wright to design a new campus for the school. Wright took on the job and imagined buildings that would rise from the land the way the citrus trees did. He called his vision "Child of the Sun."
Over the next two decades, his plans became libraries, classrooms, offices and a chapel, all tied together by long, low covered walkways called esplanades. Wright used patterned concrete blocks set with small pieces of colored glass that sparkle when the Florida sun hits them. Today the campus holds the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world, and it is a National Historic Landmark. Visitors from around the globe still come to stroll the shaded esplanades and see how a master architect answered the Florida sunshine.
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