Edison and Ford Winter Estates
Historic House · Fort Myers, Florida
Thomas Edison's winter home from 1886 and Henry Ford's next door from 1916, on twenty acres of the Caloosahatchee riverfront in Fort Myers, with Edison's botanical research laboratory preserved as he left it. He spent his last years here trying to make rubber from goldenrod, funded by Ford and Firestone, and the banyan Firestone gave him has grown into one of the largest trees in the continental United States.
2350 McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers, Florida, 33901, United States
Open daily, generally 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Holiday Nights run on selected December evenings.
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