Contact Info
Bok Tower Gardens
Cassie Jacoby
1151 Tower Boulevard
Lake Wales, FL 33853-3412
Phone: 863-676-1408
Fax: 863-676-6770
Contact via Email
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Services
- National Historic Landmark
- Vacation
- Resort
- attraction
Fundraisers We Support
- Pine Ridge Nature Reserve
- Chamber of Commerce
- Habitat Preservation
Hours of Operation
365 days a year8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
last admission at 5 p.m.
About Us
Voted Florida’s “Best Garden” by readers of Florida Monthly Magazine, you can also become a member of Bok Tower Gardens and enjoy the beauty of the Gardens 365 days a year. Visit our Membership page for more information.
Whats the History behind Bok Tower?
Edward William Bok (1863-1930), American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born in Den Helder, Netherlands, on October 9, 1863. He came to the United States at the age of six. Educated in the Brooklyn Public Schools, he became an office boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1876.
Continuing his education at a night school, he began working for Henry Holt and Company, publishers, in 1882. Two years later he became associated with Charles Scribner’s Sons, publishers, eventually becoming advertising manager. He was the editor of The Brooklyn Magazine from 1884 to 1887. In 1886, he founded The Bok Syndicate Press, which led to the offer of the editorship of The Ladies’ Home Journal in 1889.
Under his management, The Ladies’ Home Journal became one of the most successful and influential publications in America and the first magazine in the world to have one million subscribers. Bok was a champion of social causes, a pioneer in the field of public sex education, prenatal education and childcare, and an environmental activist in public health and the saving of Niagara Falls.
