Bob Vila discusses and visits Lincoln Road, with architectural historian Allan Shulman. Carl Fisher, �Mr. Miami Beach�, imagined Lincoln Road as a grand thoroughfare in 1915, along the lines of Fifth Avenue or Avenue de la Paix in Paris. Lincoln Road was home to elite shops, department stores, hotels, and theaters until its decline in the 1950s. It was reborn as a pedestrian mall through the vision of architect Morris Lapidus, who recreated Lincoln Road as a pedestrian mall and city garden for Miami with exotic plants and fanciful pavilions scattered throughout. In this century, Lincoln Road has once again been rediscovered and renewed. Today it is a Miami hot spot for shopping, dining, and people watching. Shulman describes the theatres, hotels, restaurants, and stores and how the buildings have evolved architecturally throughout Miami�s history.

Bob Vila meets with Bob Berle at Elm Court in the Berkshire Hills. Berle�s great-great grandparents, Vanderbilt-Sloanes, had the home built in 1886. It expanded through several additions to become the largest shingle-style home in the United States. The original architects, Peabody and Stearns, oversaw all the additions to the home and kept it within its original character while adding some flare, like the Tudor timberwork and towers. The Vanderbilt-Sloanes liked size and when they copied a fountain from the Piazza Mattei in Rome, they increased it by about 20 times the size of the original. The grounds and surrounding gardens were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed Central Park in New York. The grounds beautifully transition the home into the surrounding countryside. Elm Court, named after a three hundred-year-old Elm tree in the backyard, has been the site of several historic gatherings including the 1919 Elm Court Talks that led to the Treaty of Versailles.

In his grand finale here in Malibu Beach, Bob take us on a tour of the tiled courtyard with palms and fountain. We get a surprise visit from "Home Improvement's" Tool Time Girl, Pamela Anderson Lee who talks about water heaters. And we look at the complex electrical panel. Starting with the garage door and its antique reproduction carvings to the lanterns and the pergola Then Steve shows the types of palms he brought in to exhibit textures, a Lady Finger Palm, a Pygmy Date in the rear and a Sago in the foreground and ferns in the background. He also brought in dwarf stock and primrose for color. Bob brought in a fountain from cantera stone. In other areas they are adding faux stone with latex paint. Inside we review the hybrid cabling system routed through one main area near the electrical system.

Bob returns to the Stockbridge, Massachusetts, landmark home Naumkeag for a tour of the elaborate gardens.

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