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Addison Mizner

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Addison Cairns Mizner (December 12, 1872 – February 5, 1933) was an American resort architect whose Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style interpretations left an indelible stamp on South Florida, where it continues to inspire architects and land developers. [1]

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Administration Buildings (Boca Raton, Florida)

The Administration Buildings are a historic site in Boca Raton, Florida, United States.

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Alice DeLamar

Alice DeLamar (April 23, 1895 – August 31, 1983) was the lesbian heiress to Joseph Raphael De Lamar.

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Alva Johnston

Alva Johnston (August 1, 1888 – November 23, 1950) was an American journalist and biographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1923.

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Architecture of Jacksonville

The architecture of Jacksonville is a combination of historic and modern styles reflecting the city's early position as a regional center of business.

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Benicia, California

Benicia is a waterside city in Solano County, California, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Boca Raton History Museum

The Boca Raton History Museum is located at 71 North Federal Highway (U.S. 1) in downtown Boca Raton, Florida.

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Boca Raton Old City Hall

The Boca Raton Old City Hall (labeled as "Town Hall" on signs) is a historic site in Boca Raton, Florida, United States.

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Boca Raton Resort

The Boca Raton Resort & Club, which opened February 6, 1926 as the Cloister Inn, is a large resort and membership-based club located in Boca Raton, Florida.

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Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton (lit) is the southernmost city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, first incorporated on August 2, 1924 as "Bocaratone," and then incorporated as "Boca Raton" in 1925.

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Casa Casuarina

The Villa, Casa Casuarina, (also known as Versace Mansion) is a property previously owned by Italian fashion impresario Gianni Versace at Ocean Drive in the Miami Beach Architectural District, Florida.

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Clarence H. Geist

Clarence Henry Geist (1866–June 12, 1938) was a financier who played an important role in the early history of Boca Raton, Florida.

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Cypress Lawn Memorial Park

Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, established by Hamden Holmes Noble in 1892, is a cemetery located in Colma, California, a place known as the "City of the Silent".

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Edward T. Stotesbury

Edward Townsend "Ned" Stotesbury (February 26, 1849 – May 16, 1938) was a prominent investment banker, a partner in Philadelphia's Drexel & Co. and its New York affiliate J. P. Morgan & Co. for over fifty-five years.

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El Mirasol (mansion)

El Mirasol was a 37-room Spanish Colonial Revival mansion at 348 N. Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Ethel Watts Mumford

Ethel Watts Mumford (1876 or 78? – 1940) was an American author from New York City.

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Everglades Club

The Everglades Club is the preeminent, and most exclusive, social club in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Florida Artists Hall of Fame

Florida Artists Hall of Fame recognizes artists who have made significant contributions to art in Florida.

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Florida land boom of the 1920s

The Florida land boom of the 1920s was Florida's first real estate bubble, which burst in 1925, leaving behind entire new cities and the remains of failed development projects such as Aladdin City in south Miami-Dade County, Miami's Isola di Lolando in north Biscayne Bay, or Boca Raton as Addison Mizner planned it to be.

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Fred C. Aiken House

The Fred C. Aiken House is a historic house located at 801 Hibiscus Street in the historic neighborhood of Old Floresta in Boca Raton, Florida.

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Harvey and Clarke

Harvey and Clarke was an American architectural firm formed by Henry Stephen Harvey and L. Philips Clarke in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 1921.

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Hermann V. von Holst

Hermann V. von Holst (1874–1955) was an American architect practicing in Chicago, Illinois, and Boca Raton, Florida, from the 1890s to the 1940s.

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Hitchcock Estate

The Hitchcock Estate in Millbrook, New York is a historic mansion and surrounding grounds, associated with Timothy Leary and the psychedelic movement.

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Hugh Dillman

Hugh Dillman (born Hugh Dillman McGaughy, 8 February 1885 in Chesterville, Ohio – died 7 July 1956 in Columbus, Ohio) was a Broadway and silent film actor.

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Isaac Singer

Isaac Merritt Singer (October 27, 1811 – July 23, 1875) was an American inventor, actor, and businessman.

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James Semple

James Semple (January 5, 1798 – December 20, 1866) was a United States Senator from Illinois.

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John Shaffer Phipps

John Shaffer Phipps (August 11, 1874 – May 12, 1958) was an American lawyer and businessman who was an heir to the Phipps family fortune and a shareholder of his father-in-law's Grace Shipping Lines.

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John W. Martin

John Wellborn Martin (June 21, 1884 – February 22, 1958) was an American politician.

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La Claridad

La Claridad was a mansion built on Golfview Road in Palm Beach, Florida in 1924 for utilities magnate Clarence H. Geist.

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La Ronda (estate)

La Ronda, was a mansion and estate in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania from 1929 to 2009.

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Lansing B. Mizner

Lansing Bond Mizner (December 5, 1825 – December 9, 1893) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician.

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Lavender House

The Lavender House (also known as the Hermann V. von Holst House) is a historic home in Boca Raton, Florida, United States.

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LGBT history in Florida

This article concerns LGBT history in Florida.

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List of American architects

This list of American architects includes notable architects and architecture firms with a strong connection to the United States (i.e., born in the United States, located in the United States or known primarily for their work in the United States).

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List of Baptist churches

This is a list of Baptist churches that are notable either as congregations or as buildings.

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List of cemeteries in California

This list of cemeteries in California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea.

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List of largest houses in the United States

The following is a list of the largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by square footage of the main house.

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Mary Rutherfurd Jay

Mary Rutherfurd Jay (1872–1953), the great, great granddaughter of American Founding Father John Jay, was one of America's earliest landscape architects and an advocate of horticultural education and careers for women.

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Mediterranean Revival architecture

Mediterranean Revival is a design style introduced in the United States in the waning nineteenth century variously incorporating references from Spanish Renaissance, Spanish Colonial, Beaux-Arts, Italian Renaissance, Arabic Andalusian architecture, and Venetian Gothic architecture.

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Michael Jibson

Michael Jibson (born 16 December 1980) is an Olivier award winning English actor, writer and director.

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Mizner Park

Mizner Park is a lifestyle center in downtown Boca Raton, Florida, United States.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Palm Beach County, Florida

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Palm Beach County, Florida.

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Old Palm Golf Club

Old Palm Golf Club is a private residential golf community with an equity club located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States.

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Oliver Herford

Oliver Herford, a writer, artist, and illustrator, was born in Sheffield, England on December 2, 1860 (not 1863, as is widely stated) to Rev.

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Palm Beach, Florida

The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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Paris Singer

Paris Eugene Singer (b. Paris, 20 February 1867; d. London, 24 June 1932) was an early resident of Palm Beach, Florida.

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Paul Moore Sr.

Paul Moore (1886–1959) was an American businessman.

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Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach

The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach is a private, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the preservation of the historic, architectural, as well as cultural heritage of Palm Beach, Florida.

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Richard Kind

Richard Bruce Kind (born November 22, 1956) is an American actor and voice actor known for his roles in the sitcoms Mad About You (as Dr. Mark Devanow) and Spin City (as Paul Lassiter).

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Richard René Silvin

Richard René Silvin (born May 16, 1948) is an American retired corporate executive, turned author and lecturer, who is best known as an expert on Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, Palm Beach society architect, Addison Mizner, the 1930s French Line flagship, SS Normandie, and the history of Mar-a-Lago.

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Riverside and Avondale

Riverside and Avondale are two adjacent and closely associated neighborhoods, alternatively considered one continuous neighborhood, of Jacksonville, Florida.

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Riverside Baptist Church

The Riverside Baptist Church (RBC) is a historic church in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Road Show (musical)

Road Show (previously titled Bounce, and before that Wise Guys and Gold!) is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman.

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Rock Hall (Colebrook, Connecticut)

Rock Hall is a circa 1912 Mediterranean Revival house at 19 Rock Hall Road in Colebrook, Connecticut.

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Rodman Wanamaker

Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (February 13, 1863 – March 9, 1928) was a department store magnate.

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Society of the Four Arts

The Society of the Four Arts was founded in 1936.

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Spanish Colonial Revival architecture

The Spanish Colonial Revival Style is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Stags' Leap Winery

Stags' Leap Winery is a winery located near Yountville, California, in the Stags Leap District of Napa Valley.

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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.

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The Breakers (hotel)

The Breakers Palm Beach is a historic, 538 room, Italian Renaissance-style hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, United States.

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Vanderbilt houses

From the late 1870s to the 1920s, the Vanderbilt family employed some of the United States's best Beaux-Arts architects and decorators to build an unequalled string of New York townhouses and East Coast palaces in the United States.

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Via Mizner

The Via Mizner is a historic site in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Villa

A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house.

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Waldo E. Sexton

Waldo Emmerson Sexton (23 March 1885 – 28 December 1967) was an entrepreneur whose enterprises have attracted visitors to Vero Beach, Florida, since the 1930s and remain of value to the community, industry, tourists, artists, historians and horticulturalists.

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WFLA

WFLA may refer to.

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WFLA (Boca Raton, Florida)

WFLA was an AM radio station owned and funded by the Mizner Development Corporation in Boca Raton, Florida, which Mizner was trying to develop.

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White Pine Camp

White Pine Camp is an Adirondack Great Camp on Osgood Pond in Paul Smiths, New York.

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William Gray Warden House

The William Gray Warden House (also known as the Warden House) is a historic home in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Willis Polk

Willis Jefferson Polk (October 3, 1867 – September 10, 1924) was an American architect best known for his work in San Francisco, California.

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Wilson Mizner

Wilson Mizner (May 19, 1876 – April 3, 1933) was an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur.

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Wise Guy (musical)

Wise Guy, which had at different points the working titles (in approximate order) The Last Resorts, Palm Beach, The Mizner Story, and Sentimental Guy, is a musical whose music and lyrics were written by Irving Berlin about 1952-1956.

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Worth Avenue

Worth Avenue is an upscale shopping and dining district in Palm Beach, Florida.

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1926 Miami hurricane

The 1926 Miami hurricane, commonly called the "Great Miami" hurricane, was a large and intense tropical cyclone that devastated the Greater Miami area and caused extensive damage in the Bahamas and the U.S. Gulf Coast in September 1926, accruing a US$100 million damage toll that would be the second costliest in U.S. history when adjusted using inflation, population, and wealth normalization, yielding a cost of nearly US$196 billion.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison_Mizner

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