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Grab the kids and head for the Huntsville Botanical Garden.  Not only are the butterflies flitting about, but there are eight creative treehouses positioned throughout the Garden for everyone to climb on, explore and try-out.  Now through October 31st, you can be a kid again, if you dare, and inspect these little masterpieces.

The Street of the Lifted Lorax

This treehouse (pictured second from left, second row) was designed by Drew Crow, architect, of Crow & Associates.  Crow got the idea from a Dr. Seuss story, The Street of the Lifted Lorax, that he had read to his 4-year old son.  A strange path in the Botanical Garden that lead to a cluster of trees seem the ideal spot for the treehouse.  This story is one of Dr. Seuss' most environmentally active and seemed a perfect theme for a treehouse project. 

The design features the Oncler's house at the top of the tree, a Wisper-Ma for a phone, a bucket with a pulley and plenty of other items from the Lorax story for visitors to discover.

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