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Lehigh Acres Real Estate in southwest Florida, was subdivided by the Lehigh Corporation the 60s and is now a colorful tapestry of post-1950s Americana.

Homes built circa 1960 suggest a Leave-It-to-Beaver society. One, designed exclusively for the Lehigh Acres Corporation president, resembles the recessed living room set of a Dean Martin-Frank Sinatra movie. Liberace stayed and played in the house, now restored.

Elsewhere, a Tibetan temple stands on back roads east of the Able Canal, a statue of Mount Fuji stood in someones front yard until recently, and many citizens of the world; Mexicans, Guatemalans, Colombians, Peruvians, Germans, Britons and Hoosiers, to name a few who call Lehigh home.The median age is 38, according to the Lehigh Chamber of Commerce, and the younger demographic seeking lower prices for first homes is boosting business here.

Vacant residential lots remain abundant both north and south, but demographers predict that in the 100square-mile sprawl of Lehigh will be roughly as populous as contemporary Cape Coral, and mostly rooftops at some point in the future.

Lehigh Acres Real Estate includes thousands of single-family homes built during the past four decades on a variety of lot sizes. A few million-dollar estates exist here; some high-end homebuilders like the lower land prices and relative seclusion of the community, but with easy access to major centers and roadways.