Lakeland, Florida

===The Florida Boom and the 20th century===
[[File:Florida - Lakeland - NARA - 23936679 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|View of Lakeland, April 1922]]
[[File:Florida - Lakeland - NARA - 23936675 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Factory under construction, August 1941]]
The Florida boom resulted in the construction of many significant structures in Lakeland, a number of which are now listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. This list includes the Terrace Hotel, New Florida Hotel (Regency Tower, currently Lake Mirror Tower), [[Polk Theatre and Office Building|Polk Theatre]], [[Frances Langford Promenade]], [[Polk Museum of Art]] (not a product of the 1920s boom), Park Trammell Building (formerly the [[Lakeland Public Library]] and today the Lakeland Chamber of Commerce), and others. The city also has several historic districts that have many large buildings built during the 1920s and 1940s. The [[Cleveland Indians]] held spring training there from 1923 to 1927 at [[Henley Field Ball Park]]. Parks were developed surrounding Lake Mirror, including Barnett Children's Park, Hollis Gardens, and the newest, Allen Kryger Park.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lake Mirror Complex|url=https://www.lakelandgov.net/departments/parks-recreation/lake-mirror-complex/|access-date=2021-10-29|website=City of Lakeland|language=en}}</ref>

The "boom" period went "bust" quickly, and years passed before the city recovered. Part of the reemergence was due to the arrival of the [[Detroit Tigers]] baseball team in 1934 for spring training. The Tigers still train at Lakeland's [[Joker Marchant Stadium]] and own the city's [[Minor League Baseball|Class A]] [[Florida State League]] team, the [[Lakeland Flying Tigers]]. In the mid-1930s, the [[Works Progress Administration]] built the [[Lodwick Field|Lakeland Municipal Airport]].<ref name="Brown-2001" />

In 1938, [[Florida Southern College]] President [[Ludd M. Spivey|Ludd Spivey]] invited architect [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] to design a "great education temple in Florida."<ref name="www.bostonglobe.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2014/10/25/frank-lloyd-wright-fla-campus/hnSzBNZNmLsB17705tRbSM/amp.html|title=Frank Lloyd Wright's Fla. campus – The Boston Globe|website=www.bostonglobe.com|language=en|access-date=2017-04-01}}</ref> Wright worked on the project for over 20 years as Spivey found ways to fund it and find construction workers during [[World War II]].<ref name="www.bostonglobe.com" /> Wright's original plan called for 18 structures; in total he designed 30, but only 12 were completed.<ref name="MacDonald-2007">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZi_CEycn2cC&q=frank+lloyd+wright+child+of+the+sun&pg=PA126|title=The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright at Florida Southern College|last1=MacDonald|first1=Randall M.|last2=Galbraith|first2=Nora E.|last3=Rogers|first3=James G.|date=2007-01-01|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738552798|language=en}}</ref> Wright's [[Textile block house|textile block]] motif is used extensively on the campus. The concrete blocks he used are in need of restoration.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/new-frank-lloyd-wright-house-constructed-florida-southern#stream/0|title=New Frank Lloyd Wright House Constructed at Florida Southern|last=Sussingham|first=Robin|access-date=2017-04-01|language=en}}</ref>

Wright titled the project ''Child of the Sun'', describing his Florida Southern buildings as being "out of the ground, into the light, a child of the sun."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/architectureoffr0003stor|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/architectureoffr0003stor/page/252 252]|quote=wright out of the ground into the light child of the sun.|title=The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog|last1=Storrer|first1=William Allin|last2=Wright|first2=Frank Lloyd|date=2002-04-15|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226776224|language=en}}</ref> It is the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the world, and attracts 30,000 visitors each year.<ref name="MacDonald-2007" /> In 1975, the "Florida Southern Architectural District" was added to the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="MacDonald-2007" /> In 2012, Wright's campus was designated as a [[National Historic Landmark]] by the [[National Park Service]].