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The Mountain Lake Estates Historic District is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on August 26, 1993). Mountain Lake Estates was first developed in the 1920s as an exclusive residential area created "to attract the nation's business elite." The developers hired Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to design the community. Such wealthy and widely-known people as Edward W. Bok (long-time editor of Ladies' Home Journal and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author), August Heckscher (benefactor of the Heckscher Museum of Art), and Irving T. Bush (of Bush Terminal, Bush Tower, and Bush House fame) subsequently became early "snowbirds" and established winter homes in or near Mountain Lake Estates. The district contains 65 historic buildings, including two previously listed on the National Register: El Retiro Estate (today renamed "Pinewood" and part of the landmark Bok Tower Gardens[3]) and Mountain Lake Colony House. (credit Wikipedia)