Editing Lauderhill, Florida (section)

==History==
Lauderhill was one of two developments (the other in New York) that began largely as off-the-shelf architectural designs which had been available to the public at [[Macy's]] department store. The homes, which had been designed by [[Andrew Geller]], had originally been on display at the "Typical American Houses" at the American Exhibition in Moscow. Following a group of approximately 200 of the homes constructed in [[Montauk, New York]] in 1963 and 1964, the same developer, Herbert Sadkin<ref name="sadkin">{{cite news
  | title = Macy's Montauk Houses, a Cold War Footnote
  | publisher = The New York Times, Carole Paquette, April 6, 2003
  | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/realestate/in-the-region-long-island-macy-s-montauk-houses-a-cold-war-footnote.html
  | date=2003-04-06}}</ref><ref name="sadkin2">{{cite web
  | title = Builder To Unveil Tower
  | publisher = Sunsentinal.com, January 19, 1985, John G. Edwards
  | quote=Sadkin, the developer of Lauderhill and Bonaventure, did confirm that invitations mailed this week to area business leaders to a "presentation" concerned The 110 Tower, an office building to be located at 110 SW Sixth St. across from the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale.
  | url = http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1985-01-19/business/8501030168_1_office-building-franza-tower| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151008223012/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1985-01-19/business/8501030168_1_office-building-franza-tower| url-status = dead| archive-date = October 8, 2015}}</ref> of the New York-based All-State Properties<ref name="utopia"/> reprised his success in New York, building a series of similar homes in Florida, calling the development Lauderhill.

In 2003, the ''New York Times'' described the Macy's homes:

<blockquote>The package deal included a 730- to 1,200-square-foot house on a 75-by-100-foot lot, as well as state-of-the art appliances, furniture, housewares and everything else a family would need for a weekend in the sun, including toothbrushes and toilet paper. The cost was roughly $13,000 to $17,000.<ref name="utopia">{{cite news
  | title = When a Slice of Beach 'Utopia' Could Be Had for Under $17,000
  | publisher = The New York Times, August 3, 2003, Julia Mead
  | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/nyregion/architecture-when-a-slice-of-beach-utopia-could-be-had-for-under-17000.html
  | date=2003-08-03}}</ref></blockquote>

The [[Inverrary Country Club]] was built in 1970, and [[1972 PGA Tour|two years later]], its East golf course became home to the new [[Jackie Gleason]] [[The Honda Classic|Inverrary Classic]] on the [[PGA Tour]], which it hosted through [[1983 PGA Tour|1983]]. Gleason himself built his final home on the golf course.

Up until the late 1980s-early 1990s, Lauderhill was mostly a [[retirement community]] for [[American Jews|Jews]] and a [[vacation property|second home]] for [[Snowbird (people)|snowbirds]] (especially in the Inverrary neighborhood).<ref name=DemoLH>{{cite news|url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-flohouse1216sbdec16,0,6346538.story |title=Lauderhill symbolic of changing demographics in South Florida (by Tom Collie December 17, 2007) |newspaper=[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]] |access-date=2008-07-14}}</ref> It is now home to mostly [[Jamaicans]], [[West Indian]]s, and [[African American]]s, but it still has a sizeable white, Jewish, and Hispanic population in the Northwest section and the Inverrary neighborhood, located north of [[Florida State Road 816|Oakland Park Boulevard]] and east of [[Florida State Road 817|University Drive]]).<ref name=DemoLH/>