Vero Beach’s eccentric genius, Waldo E. Sexton, who founded what he called McKee Jungle Garden with business partner Arthur McKee, designed this building because he fell in love with a table.

McKee Botanical Garden in Vero Beach is an 18-acre garden that is what's left of McKee Jungle Gardens, which was once one of the most visited attractions in Florida.

Waldo Sexton, folk-architect and co-founder of the McKee Jungle Gardens near Vero Beach, playing with the attraction’s monkeys circa 1950. (Courtesy State Archives of Florida) ...

Waldo Sexton, folk-architect and co-founder of the McKee Jungle Gardens near Vero Beach, playing with the attraction’s monkeys circa 1950. (Courtesy State Archives of Florida) (600x457, AR: 1. ...

Credit: Courtesy of Vero Beach Museum of Art. The primary visual arts facility on the Treasure Coast, the Vero Beach Museum of Art features an impressive permanent collection of nearly 1,000 pieces ...

1430 16th St., Vero Beach; on the northeast corner of 16th Street and 14th Court in Vero Beach, ... when that stretch felt more like Route 66 with roadside stops such as McKee Jungle Gardens, Hale ...

He graduated from Vero Beach High School in 1991 and went to work at Quik Snak, where he started his restaurant career. It was on the corner or State Road 60 and 43rd Avenue, now Nino's Corner. In his ...

Vero Beach, Florida The McKee Botanical Gardens , which first opened in 1932 as the McKee Jungle Gardens, features 10,000 native and tropical plants along with one of the largest collections of ...

VERO BEACH — The ancient Greeks had Heracles. The Vikings had Thor. McKee Botanical Gardens has Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein. The pair — known as the Myth Makers — are the creators of the ...

It is a wonder the garden is here at all. In 1922, developers Arthur McKee and Waldo Sexton purchased the 80- acre tropical hammock to grow citrus, but the land’s pristine beauty changed their plans ...

McKee Botanical Garden: Vero Beach. Getty Images. ... By the 1940s, more than 100,000 tourists were visiting McKee Jungle Gardens each year to see the impressive collection of water lilies, ...

Waldo Sexton built the Hall of Giants at McKee Jungle Gardens for the 35-foot-long table that first came to the U.S. in 1904 for the World's Fair ...