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147-504: The resort first opened on February 6, 1926, as the 100-room Ritz-Carlton Cloister Inn. Originally designed and built by Boca Raton's city planner, architect Addison Mizner , who intended Camino Real to be the main street of his new city, it was to have been one of two hotels, with the other being an oceanfront hotel. However, the Ritz-Carlton Investment Corporation became involved in the project and wanted

294-601: A Beaux-Arts mansion, Whitehall , designed by the New York-based firm Carrère and Hastings and helped establish the Palm Beach "winter season". Telephone service was established in Palm Beach in 1908, with 18 customers initially. Prior to the 1910s, many African Americans in the area lived in a segregated section of Palm Beach called the "Styx", with an estimated population of 2,000 at its peak. Between 1910 and 1912, though, African Americans were evicted from

441-608: A grand jury at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida to indict him on 37 felony counts relating to the mishandling of classified documents on June 8, 2023. The January 1878 wreck of the Providencia is credited with giving Palm Beach its name. The Providencia was traveling from Havana to Cádiz, Spain , with a cargo of coconuts harvested in

588-431: A "love affair with the president [of Guatemala]'s daughter" is fictitious.) Although at that period he could not be open, his biographer Caroline Seebohm said "his mature sexual taste was for very young men", "pretty boys with pretensions," and he had "a series of young boys in tow" during his later years. One of these "young and handsome" men was Alex Waugh, who accompanied Mizner on buying trips and ended up manager of

735-485: A Ranger camp at the northern tip of the island, which could accommodate 200 men. The Palm Beach Civilian Defense Council ordered blackouts in Palm Beach beginning on April 11, 1942. Throughout the war, German U-boats sank 24 ships off Florida, with eight capsized off Palm Beach County between February and May 1942. The Army converted The Breakers into the Ream General Army Hospital, while

882-974: A U.S. diplomat in Spanish America. Addison, who became fluent, after some tutoring enrolled at the Instituto Nacional in Guatemala City, "where we learned that boys fought with knives and not with fists". He remained there for a year, visiting Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras with his father, before returning to California in 1890 to study at the Bates School , a boarding school in San Rafael, California . His studies there ended in 1891 because of his brother Wilson's expulsion for misbehavior. He continued his studies briefly at Boone's College in Berkeley, California , with

1029-608: A book titled Landmark Architecture in Palm Beach in 1974. She personally photographed and summarized many older buildings in the town. The book also called for more awareness of and improvements to a system for protecting historic landmarks. The town council responded in 1979 by approving an ordinance establishing the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which identifies and works to protect historic structures. General Foods and Post Cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post bequeathed Mar-a-Lago to

1176-524: A botanical garden, and a sculpture garden. The two libraries serve as public libraries for the town of Palm Beach, one a children's library and the other a general public library. Officially named the Gioconda and Joseph King Library, the town's general public library has more than 70,000 items, including books, audiobooks, DVDs, and periodicals. The Dixon Education Building features art studio and classrooms, as well as an apartment for an artist visiting

1323-725: A capacity of about 400 people upon its expected completion in 2024. Worth Avenue and its vicinity also has several art galleries, including DTR Modern Galleries, Evey Fine Art Gallery, Galeria of Sculpture, Gallerie Y, and the John H. Surovek Gallery. Additionally, the Norton Museum of Art and its sculpture gardens are just across the Intracoastal Waterway in West Palm Beach. The Hope for Depression Research Foundation hosts an annual 5K run/walk known as

1470-462: A characterless copybook effect", he sought to "make a building look traditional and as though it had fought its way from a small, unimportant structure to a great, rambling house that took centuries of different needs and ups and downs of wealth to accomplish. I sometimes start a house with a Romanesque corner, pretend that it has fallen into disrepair and been added to in the Gothic spirit, when suddenly

1617-515: A charter to officially incorporate the town of Palm Beach on April 17, 1911. Dimick became the first mayor, John McKenna became town clerk, and Joseph Borman became town marshal, while J. B. Donnelly, William Fremd, John Doe, Enoch Root, and J.J. Ryman served as the first council members. Also in 1911, Dimick built the Royal Park Bridge , with its first incarnation being a wooden structure. Passage from West Palm Beach to Palm Beach on

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1764-540: A criminal referral by the National Archives and Records Administration relating to classified documents. Although former President Trump surrendered 235 classified documents by June 2022, the search at Mar-a-Lago yielded another 102 such documents. This discovery, along with allegations that Trump transported documents to his golf club in New Jersey and showed them to some guests there, led

1911-583: A dining hall, with multiple wash stations, on a " hospital " in Vic , Spain; there is no such building in Vic. He also invented a prize fight in Australia; he had a lifelong leg injury and could not possibly box. But he said he fought the boxing champion of Australia to a draw after twenty rounds ("he was slow and ... I was fast" ), and in a rematch knocked out and probably killed his opponent. He had to escape out

2058-596: A distance of roughly 3.5 miles (5.6 km). Palm Beach has several social and golf clubs , most notably the Everglades Club and Mar-a-Lago . The former, built by Addison Mizner and Paris Singer in 1918, had the original purpose of being a hospital for soldiers injured in World War I . However, the war soon ended and the facilities were restructured into a private club which opened in January 1919. Some of

2205-428: A fine draftsman and an artist who painted beautiful watercolors . Although he lacked formal university training, Mizner served a 3-year apprenticeship (1894–1897) in the office of San Francisco architect Willis Jefferson Polk , eventually becoming a partner. Polk was only five years older than Addison and was not committed to any architectural style. "His [Mizner's] architectural training rivaled that of many in

2352-534: A home without first imagining some sort of romance about it. Once I have my story, then the plans take place easily." Mizner created a version of Spanish style that was appropriate to twentieth-century Florida. The loggia room has survived as the Florida room . The changing room is now an essential. The focal point, now swimming pool with bridge or hanging basket chair, creates the necessary element of excitement. Native building materials are touted. Red tile remains

2499-622: A hotel known as the Cocoanut Grove House. At the time of its opening, the Cocoanut Grove House was the only hotel along Florida's east coast between Titusville and Key West . A fire destroyed the hotel in October 1893. The Star Route, also known as the Barefoot Mailman route, began serving the area in 1885. Carriers delivered mail by foot or boat from Palm Beach and other nearby communities to as far south as Miami ,

2646-425: A never-built Boynton Woman's Club without fee "in an effort to make amends to the city". In 1925 Addison Mizner embarked on his most ambitious project, what he called his "culminating achievement": the creation of a fabulous resort at Boca Raton . He claimed that it would offer more than Palm Beach, and was "undoubtedly the most tremendous land development project ever launched in the state of Florida." The city

2793-468: A new Cadillac, also made him manager of the furniture factory [Jack having departed]. Later, Addison was attracted to the young painter he used on the Cosden house, Achille Angeli, 'a strikingly handsome young fellow'." Little is known about Addison Mizner's sketches and artwork prior to his architectural career; he did brag in 1893 of having sold six pictures for $ 150. His subsequent work shows him to be

2940-459: A number of buildings he did not build are frequently misattributed to him. Mizner Industries, copying imported antiques or photographs, manufactured beds, tables, taborets , chests, dressing tables, wardrobes, "all pieces of furniture imaginable." There were two qualities: "a superior, handcrafted line ... extremely difficult to distinguish from authentic Spanish antiques," and another "good, sturdy line with little or no hand attention." Mizner

3087-773: A parade that began at the Flagler Museum (Whitehall). Between February and December 2015, the Town Square, which includes the Addison Mizner Memorial Fountain and the town hall, underwent a $ 5.7 million restoration. The fountain's restoration was named "project of the year" by the American Public Works Association 's Florida chapter. The FBI conducted a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022, approved by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart after

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3234-430: A precious commodity. Pastel colors prevail. Meandering streets with boutiques are today's key to a successful commercial adventure. The advantages of mixed residential and commercial use have become obvious. To get the all-important appearance of antiquity Mizner inflicted vandalism. He deliberately smudged up new rooms with burning pots of tarpaper, took penknife to woodwork and statuary, chipped tiles, used acid to rust

3381-550: A proposal to invest $ 75 million for renovations to the hotel, restaurants, and amenities. The property continued to be managed by Hilton under the Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts brand until its departure in July 2021. As of July 12, 2021, the resort was renamed as The Boca Raton. Addison Mizner Addison Cairns Mizner ( / ˈ m aɪ z n ər / MIZE -ner ) (December 12, 1872 – February 5, 1933)

3528-496: A reliable one. He invented stories, all set in foreign countries and thus in practice unverifiable. One the lack of veracity of which is documented is the tale of his visit with his father and other family members to the ruins of Copán , in Honduras . "No one knew exactly where it was", and they needed "a small army of carriers and machete wielders to cut our way in". John Lloyd Stephens was "the only other white man to set foot on

3675-664: A result of Mizner, "Palm Beach was transformed.". Mizner "designed with the wealthy in mind"; people "began building private residences on a grand scale." As a result in large part of Mizner, "by 1925 Palm Beach had established itself as the resort community of the United States." Mizner's concept of architect was that he did not just design a building, but also its interior decoration and gardens. His houses were generally one room deep to allow cross-ventilation , with kitchens located in wings to keep their heat away from living areas. Kitchens were also located downwind of

3822-523: A round trip of 136 miles (219 km). The first schoolhouse in southeast Florida (also known as the Little Red Schoolhouse) opened in Palm Beach in 1886. Henry Flagler , a Standard Oil tycoon, made his first visit to Palm Beach in 1893, and described the area as a "veritable paradise". That same year, Flagler hired George W. Potter to plot 48 blocks for West Palm Beach , a city to house workers at his hotels, and construction began on

3969-571: A story about how, in 1892, Argelia Benton ( es:Argelia Benton ), the American wife of Guatemalan dictator Jose Maria Reina Barrios , invited him to build a new palace for her in Guatemala City . He was to receive a retainer of $ 25,000 in gold, but Barrios was assassinated before Mizner received any of the money. Mizner's dramatic story is not evidenced by the chronology: her residence/palace, Villa Argelia, already existed in 1892, and Barrios

4116-473: A style more appropriate for South Florida . His Mediterranean Revival designs won the attention and patronage of wealthy clients, who preferred to build their own individual ocean-front mansions. Constructed of stone, tile, and stucco, his buildings were better suited to Florida's semi-tropical climate (and threat of hurricanes) than the wooden shingle-style resort architecture imported from the Northeast. As

4263-510: A town manager has the authority to appoint and supervise the senior management team, including the deputy town manager and department directors. The officeholder of town manager is appointed annually by the town council. Kirk Blouin, a former Palm Beach chief of police and later Director of Public Safety, has served as town manager since February 13, 2018. Palm Beach is part of Florida's 22nd congressional district , which has been represented by Democrat Lois Frankel since 2023. The town at

4410-446: A two-thousand-room hotel modeled on 'the lines of a Spanish monastery'." He planned to exchange the design of a new Boynton City Hall for city commissioners' permission to build his hotel and club. The project (1924–1925) went aground, and Mizner abandoned it, after locals strongly opposed the relocation of Old Ocean Boulevard – a new road was built and the original road was to be destroyed – to allow beachfront lots. He designed plans for

4557-416: A wood component, which could be poured and molded. As a result, Mizner Industries sold "precast plastering", highly ornate plaster coffered ceilings and mouldings, and with woodite, besides antique-style doors, the paneling of a complete room, all at a relatively low cost. "One of the major difficulties in identifying Mizner buildings is the presence of Mizner Industries stonework on non-Mizner buildings";

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4704-481: A year, the Palm Beach Charity Register magazine publishes a guide to charitable events held in the town and other nearby localities. The magazine promoted 186 charity galas, luncheons, and parties scheduled between the fall of 2019 and summer of 2020. Whitehall reopened as the Flagler Museum on February 6, 1960, after Henry Flagler's granddaughter, Jean Flagler Matthews, purchased

4851-747: Is a 4.7 mile (7.6 km) path along the Intracoastal Waterway from Worth Avenue to near the Lake Worth Inlet. Another trail, the County Road Pedestrian Path/Bicycle Lane is around 1.1 miles (1.8 km) in length from Kawama Lane to Bahama Lane along North County Road. The third path is the Southern Pedestrian/Bicycle Path, running from Sloan's Curve to the town's southern boundaries along State Road A1A ,

4998-466: Is a section of Worth Avenue . Forbes reported in 2017 that Palm Beach had at least 30 billionaires, with the town ranking as the 27th-wealthiest place in the United States in 2016, according to Bloomberg News . Many famous and wealthy individuals have resided in the town, including United States presidents John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump . Palm Beach is known for upscale shopping districts, such as Worth Avenue , Royal Poinciana Plaza, and

5145-584: Is also designated a conservation area. According to the Köppen climate classification , Palm Beach has a tropical rainforest climate ( Af ) with hot, humid summers and warm, drier winters. The annual average precipitation is 62.3 in (1,580 mm), most of which occurs from May through October. In the wet summer season, short-lived heavy afternoon thunderstorms are common. Palm Beach reports more than 2,900 hours of sunshine annually. Although tropical cyclones can impact Palm Beach, strikes are rare, with

5292-578: Is documented that he visited are Seville , Granada , Toledo , and Burgos . So much as available evidence indicates, he was never in the small city of Salamanca. However, because of its prestigious and mellifluous name, Salamanca was mentioned by Mizner repeatedly. Mizner told this kind of story to his clients: in Playa Riente , its "ceiling was from the Chapter House in Toledo, Spain, and

5439-661: Is essentially built out and cannot extend its boundaries. Conservation is mainly confined to Bingham Island, Fishermen's Island, and Hunter's Island. Functioning as bird sanctuaries and rookeries , the islands are leased by the National Audubon Society , though state trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund and the Blossom Estate hold the titles to the islands. A part of Blossom Estate Subdivision just south of Southern Boulevard

5586-540: Is now administered by the Historical Society of Palm Beach County . The first idea of Mizner about his first Florida building, now the Everglades Club , was that it should contain "a Moorish tower", a clear reference to the Alhambra , which Mizner visited and commented on. The Mediterranean Revival style Mizner introduced to South Florida was not Turkish or Italian, it was Spanish, specifically of

5733-552: Is on an 18-mile (29 km) long barrier island between the Intracoastal Waterway (locally known as the Lake Worth Lagoon ) on the west and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. At no point is the island wider than three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km), and in places it is only 500 feet (150 m) wide. The northern boundary of Palm Beach is the Lake Worth Inlet, though it adjoined with Singer Island until

5880-556: Is part of the South Florida metropolitan area . As of the 2020 census , Palm Beach had a year-round population of 9,245. The Jaega arrived on the modern-day island of Palm Beach approximately 3,000 years ago. Between 1816 and 1858, the Seminoles were expelled from the area . Americans settlers began to inhabit the area as early as 1872, and opened a post office about five years later. Elisha Newton "Cap" Dimick , later

6027-414: Is part of the 1st district, while the 7th district covers areas south of Worth Avenue. Palm Beach is a generally Republican town. In 2016, Donald Trump received 3,231 votes and Hillary Clinton received 2,612 votes. The School District of Palm Beach County operates one school in the town, Palm Beach Public Elementary School, on Cocoanut Row between Seaview Avenue and Royal Palm Beach and directly east of

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6174-637: Is portrayed as openly homosexual in the Stephen Sondheim — John Weidman musical Road Show . Mizner described himself as a "lifelong bachelor", after "a few unsuccessful relationships with women in California and New York". One modern researcher says that "Wilson loved women sexually; Addison cherished their friendship and companionship." He tells us, in The Many Mizners , that he "fell desperately in love with Bertha Dolbeer", but

6321-656: Is that his administration buildings (in 2017 the Addison Restaurant) was based on the house of the Spanish painter El Greco , in Toledo, Spain . As Mizner surely knew, El Greco's house was long vanished, little is known of it, and the house/museum of El Greco in Toledo , recently constructed and opened in Mizner's day (1911), made no pretense to even be in the same location as the original house. Mizner did not follow

6468-645: Is the garden of the Cathedral/former great mosque of Seville , where the Giralda is.) Similarly, he said that he traveled with his father to San José, Costa Rica , by river, which is impossible: San José is at 3,800 feet (1,200 m), and is not even close to a navigable river. He embellished it further by adding that they had missed a steamer and had to travel by dugout canoe ; there have never been dugout canoes in Costa Rica. He said that he based

6615-470: Is the oldest church in Palm Beach. The church opened at its current location by Christmas 1926. Bethesda-by-the-Sea has hosted the weddings of a few notable individuals, including Donald and Melania Trump in 2005 and Michael Jordan and Yvette Prieto in 2013. The Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce identifies several other points of interest in the town, including: The Recreation Department of Palm Beach oversees several public recreation facilities, including

6762-549: The Mercedes I to crash into the seawall of Mollie Wilmot 's estate. Wilmot's staff served the 10 sailors sandwiches and freshly brewed coffee in her gazebo and offered martinis to journalists reporting on the incident. On October 31, 1991, the Perfect Storm produced waves 20 feet (6.1 m) in height in Palm Beach. About 1,200 feet (370 m) of seawall at Worth Avenue were destroyed, while some parts of

6909-680: The Crown Colony of Trinidad and Tobago in the British West Indies , when the ship wrecked near Palm Beach. Many of the coconuts naturalized or were planted along the Palm Beach coast. A lush grove of palm trees soon grew on what was later named Palm Beach. Palm Beach is one of the easternmost towns in Florida, though the state's easternmost point is in Palm Beach Shores , just north of Lake Worth Inlet . The town

7056-775: The Navy converted the Palm Beach Biltmore Hotel into a U.S. Naval Special Hospital. The Biltmore Hotel would also become a training school for SPARS , the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve. On September 15, 1950, the Southern Boulevard Bridge opened, the third and southernmost bridge linking Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. Palm Beach residents elected Claude Dimick Reese (son of former mayor T.T. Reese and grandson of Dimick) as mayor in 1953. He became

7203-853: The Palm Beach Hotel (now the Palm Beach Hotel Condominium), the Tideline Ocean Resort & Spa , and the Vineta Hotel . The Breakers alone employs more than 2,200 people from around the world. The town of Palm Beach also contains Worth Avenue , an upscale shopping and dining district. Known for selling high-quality merchandise since the 1920s, Worth Avenue includes about 250 high-end shops, boutiques, restaurants, and art galleries. Other commercial districts of note include Royal Poinciana Plaza and Royal Poinciana Way Historic District , with

7350-561: The Royal Poinciana Hotel . The Royal Poinciana Hotel opened for business on February 11, 1894. Flagler, also the owner of the Florida East Coast Railway , extended the railroad southward to West Palm Beach by the following month. In 1896, Flagler opened a second hotel originally known as Wayside Inn, before being renamed Palm Beach Inn, and later becoming The Breakers . Fires later burned down

7497-684: The Royal Poinciana Way Historic District . Native Americans previously inhabited the island of Palm Beach, with the Jaega people arriving at least 3,000 years ago. Evidence for their inhabitation of the island are three pre- Columbian archaeological complexes. These complexes include a burial mound, six unmarked Native American cemeteries, and a more recent burial site which suggested interaction between indigenous people and Europeans. White settlers began arriving in modern-day Palm Beach by 1872. Hiram F. Hammon made

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7644-515: The ancient Greek god who protects and guards flocks. Another significant feature is the Casa Apava wall, a 1920s tile wall from the remnants of the Casa Apava estate. Encompassing approximately 0.5 acres (0.20 ha), the garden also features many endangered species of native vegetation. Bethesda-by-the-Sea , originally a mostly wooden structure built from lumber from the beach in April 1889,

7791-591: The tracery of the doors and windows from the Casa Lonja at Valencia." There was also a yellow carpet "reputed to have been woven by nuns for a cathedral in Granada." (There were no carpets at all, much less ones made by nuns, in Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries.) He never showed photographs or prints in books of the buildings he was allegedly imitating. A similar Hispanic tale told several times by Mizner

7938-616: The 1928 hurricane, also suffered greatly during the Great Depression , and was demolished in 1935. Around 4,000 people purchased the salvageable remains of the hotel. The Palm Beach-Post Times estimated some 500 homes could be built from the scraps of the hotel. Residents of Palm Beach established the Society of the Four Arts on January 14, 1936, with Hugh Dillman as the first president. The 1930s decade also saw

8085-414: The Boca Raton Club. The architectural firm Schultze and Weaver doubled the inn's size, and a cabana club was constructed where the "Addison on the Ocean" condominium building now stands. Subsequently, the U.S. Army used the club as barracks during World War II . Touted by officials as "the most elegant barracks in history," it housed soldiers during the Boca Raton Army Air Field 's operation. After

8232-487: The Club was completed in 1919, Singer sold Mizner his interest in the factory, which prospered. In West Palm Beach , "just east of the railroad," by 1925 Mizner Industries Incorporated was making, according to its catalog, "pottery, roof and floor tile, period furniture , wicker , upholstering, repairing, antique millwork and hardware, bronze sash , wrought iron , stained and leaded glass windows, reconstructed and ornamental stone, and imitation marble." It

8379-449: The Costa Bella, El Mirasol , Everglades Club (in collaboration with Paris Singer ), El Solano, La Bellucia, La Querida , Via Mizner , Villa Flora, and William Gray Warden House . Via Mizner was the first shopping complex along Worth Avenue , which was then a mostly residential street. In February 1924, the town council allotted $ 100,000 to construct a new municipal building. Harvey and Clarke architectural firm designed

8526-471: The Everglades Club, he and Paris Singer purchased a small facility and began the manufacture of roof and floor tiles, with a sideline production of ironwork and furniture. The factory also made pottery; Mizner viewed pottery as something that "could be effectively used to integrate an indoor and outdoor color scheme." The factory was called "Las Manos" ("The Hands"), referring to the way products were made there: "con las manos", with our hands, by hand. After

8673-483: The Flagler Memorial Bridge stands today. The town also has many private beaches, while R. G. Kreusler Park (owned and operated by Palm Beach County) lies directly north of the Lake Worth Municipal Beach . In addition to Pan's Garden, the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach also owns the Ambassador Earl T. Smith Memorial Park and Fountain, a small, 0.24 acre (0.097 ha) park near the town hall. The town has three bicycling and pedestrian paths. The Lake Trail

8820-424: The Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center, Palm Beach Docks, Par 3 Golf Course, and many tennis centers. The only public marina in the town, the Palm Beach Docks opened in the 1940s and is along the Intracoastal Waterway between the Royal Palm Bridge and Worth Avenue. Palm Beach Docks has three main docks and eighty-eight boat slips, along with many accommodations for boaters. There are three public beaches in

8967-425: The Race of Hope to Defeat Depression. In 2020, the event raised about $ 400,000 for depression research. The Palm Beach International Film Festival had been hosted in the town in the months of March and April since 1996. However, the festival has been on hiatus since 2018, following the resignation of CEO Jeff Davis. Various events are hosted on Worth Avenue, including historical walking tours held year-round. Once

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9114-408: The Seville tower. Two contemporaneous buildings in south Florida also contain towers based on the Giralda: the Freedom Tower (Miami) (1925) and the Miami Biltmore Hotel (1926), both products of the architectural company Schultze and Weaver , who in 1927 built the Boca Raton Club that Mizner could not. (The feature of the Everglades Club that is linked to the Giralda is the Patio of Oranges: that

9261-429: The Society of the Four Arts. Royal Poinciana Playhouse, near Cocoanut Row and Royal Poinciana Way, formerly hosted ballets, Broadway plays, opera, and other cultural events. Although the venue has been closed since 2004, it remains structurally sound. Up Markets acquired control of the playhouse in 2014 via a long-term lease. In December 2022, extensive renovations began on the building's interior, which will have

9408-489: The Society of the Four Arts. Opened in 1929, Palm Beach Public Elementary School has a school grade of A and an attendance of 362. Palm Beach Day Academy is a private school in the area. It was formed in 2006 from a merger between Palm Beach Day School and the Academy of the Palm Beaches. The school has one campus in Palm Beach and another in West Palm Beach. Most public middle school students attend Conniston Community Middle School in West Palm Beach, while students who live in

9555-480: The Styx. Most of the displaced residents relocated to the northern West Palm Beach neighborhoods of Freshwater, Northwest , and Pleasant City . In January 1911, it became known West Palm Beach intended to annex the island of Palm Beach in the upcoming Florida legislative session . Residents objected and hired an attorney from Miami to officially become incorporated. Dimick, Louis Semple Clarke , and 31 other male property owners met at Clarke's house and signed

9702-411: The United States upon her death in 1973, hoping it would be used as a Winter White House. The residence was returned to the Post family in 1981, before being purchased by Donald Trump in 1985 for roughly $ 10 million. He converted the estate into a club by 1995 and would later use Mar-a-Lago as a Winter White House during his presidency from 2017 to 2021. A nor'easter in November 1984 caused

9849-424: The United States. In 2000, the town's household income was $ 109,219. Males had a median income of $ 71,685 versus $ 42,875 for females; 5.3% of the population and 2.4% of families were below the poverty line . About 4.6% of those under the age of 18 and 2.9% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. Palm Beach had a median household income of $ 124,562 and a median family income of $ 137,867. In 2018,

9996-434: The amenities include a golf course, tennis courts, and reception halls. Everglades Club has nearly 1,000 members. The club, which is very exclusive, does not have a website and prohibits cellphones. Mar-a-Lago is 126-room, 62,500-square-foot (5,810 m ) mansion that features many hotel-style amenities. Built between 1924 and 1927, General Foods and Post Cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post originally owned

10143-628: The antiques and reproduction furniture store for Mizner Industries. When Waugh sent recollections of Mizner to biographer Alva Johnston , they were "quite unprintable". Another was Horace Chase, his "wild, thoroughly-likeable" nephew, for two years the manager of the "virtually inoperable pottery factory, 'Las Manos' ['The Hands']", which he bought from Paris Singer . "Jack Roy was a memorable young man whom Addison made manager of his furniture factory despite his having no experience whatsoever in management or any familiarity with artisanship ... Addison met Jerry Girandolle in New York and, after giving him

10290-409: The architect declared: Palm Beach, Florida Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida , United States. Located on a barrier island in east-central Palm Beach County, the town is separated from West Palm Beach and Lake Worth Beach by the Intracoastal Waterway to its west and a small section of the Intracoastal Waterway and South Palm Beach to its south. It

10437-399: The architecture of Spain itself and drew somewhat on my knowledge of Spanish tropical America. In one of his advertisements: Spanish Art in Boca Raton homes adds a special charm to these dwellings, in a land of tropical beauty where the softness of the South makes life easy. He also assembled an excellent library on Spanish and Spanish Colonial architecture, which has survived and

10584-502: The area by 1894; and developed a separate city to house the hotel workers and other laborers. This later became West Palm Beach. The town of Palm Beach was incorporated on April 17, 1911. Addison Mizner also contributed significantly to the town's history, designing 67 structures between 1919 and 1924, including El Mirasol , the Everglades Club , La Querida , the William Gray Warden House , and Via Mizner , which

10731-420: The back door with his share of the gate, head for the harbor, and board a ship whose gangplank was conveniently just being drawn up. One wonders what to make of his claim that he was "as good a bricklayer as any man I ever had. I can plaster as well as any plasterer I have seen. I am a fairly good carpenter, a better than ordinary electrician. I know how to wipe a joint in plumbing." Similarly, "I had to go into

10878-466: The bridge originally required a toll – 25 cents per vehicle and 5 cents per pedestrian. Between 1919 and 1924, American resort architect Addison Mizner designed 67 structures in Palm Beach. Some of Mizner's clients included Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. , Paul Moore Sr. , Gurnee Munn , John Shaffer Phipps , Edward Shearson , Eva Stotesbury , Rodman Wanamaker , and Barclay Harding Warburton II . His designed works included

11025-477: The building, while Newlon and Stephens built the structure after bidding $ 160,200 for the contract. The Palm Beach Town Hall opened on December 18, 1925, and is still used for town council meetings. Before its completion, the council meetings took place in a one-story wooden building on Royal Poinciana Way. Also in 1925, citywide construction revenue reached $ 14 million, attributed to the Florida land boom . The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane made landfall in

11172-482: The church in Toledo who, Addison pointed out, got several things wrong," and that "he even straightened out our host, the Duke of Alba !" (The Duke of Alba, one of the richest men in Spain, visited Palm Beach in 1926. ) In 1926 he went on a similar visit, abbreviated by the financial crisis. Mizner has been described as "an early influential gay man in South Florida ", "the gay father of South Florida architecture." He

11319-434: The company Mizner Industries to have a reliable source of components. He was "an architect with a philosophy and a dream". Boca Raton, Florida , an unincorporated small farming town that was established in 1896, became the site of Mizner's most famous development project. The 6-foot-2-inch (1.88 m), 250-pound (110 kg) bon vivant epitomized the "society architect". Rejecting other modern architects for "producing

11466-620: The construction of the Flagler Memorial Bridge, the northernmost bridge linking Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, completed on July 1, 1938. Palm Beach mayor James M. Owens acted as master of ceremonies for the bridge's opening, while then– U.S. senator Charles O. Andrews and former U.S. senator Scott Loftin gave speeches during the event. Early in World War II , the United States Army established

11613-544: The corporation quietly bought up two miles (3.2 km) of ocean-front property with an overall total of over 1,600 acres (650 ha). On April 15, 1925, the syndicate announced this large development, labeled the "Venice of the Atlantic", which would feature a thousand-room hotel, two golf courses, a polo field, parks, and miles of paved and landscaped streets which included a 160-foot-wide (49 m) grand boulevard called El Camino Real. In an address before 100 salespeople,

11760-501: The death of his mother. A second volume telling of his life in Florida was begun but never completed; the Palm Beach Historical Society has the typed manuscript. Mizner died in 1933 of heart failure in Palm Beach and is buried in the family vault at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park . According to Donald Curl, author of Mizner's Florida , He was just completely outgoing and basically a really good guy. One of

11907-449: The desired effect of age; thus " pecky " cypress , weak and worthless for structural elements, suddenly became the mahogany paneling of Palm Beach. In Boynton Beach, Florida , between Palm Beach and the future Boca Raton, Mizner's first vision of a "comprehensive ocean city" was a mile-long resort. "Mizner Mile, situated on [what is today (2018)] Old Ocean Boulevard, was to include a club, polo fields, houses designed by Mizner, and

12054-538: The dining area. They were built with courtyards on various levels, replete with arcades and lofty galleries; rooms featured exposed rafters and vaulted ceilings; tiled pools and mosaics were said to resemble those of Pompeii (if that is not another of Mizner's exaggerations). Other characteristic features included loggias , colonnades , clusters of columns supporting arches , French doors , casement windows , barrel tile roofs, hearths , grand stairways and decorative ironwork . Mizner's first big commission, and

12201-460: The estate, but willed it to the United States government prior to her death in 1973 in hopes the residence would be used as a Winter White House . Mar-a-Lago was returned to the Post family in 1981, before being sold to future United States president Donald Trump in 1985 for approximately $ 10 million. Palm Beach operates under a council–manager form of government . The town's legislative body,

12348-516: The first homestead claim in 1873 along Lake Worth . At the time, the lake area had fewer than 12 people. By 1877, the Tustenegee Post Office was established in modern-day Palm Beach, becoming the lake area's first post office. Along the coast of Palm Beach, the Providencia wrecked in 1878 with a cargo of 20,000 coconuts, which were quickly planted. In 1880, Elisha Newton "Cap" Dimick converted his private residence to

12495-423: The first time; after that, he visited Europe every year. After relocating to Florida, these visits occurred during the "off" season. In 1924, Mizner went on a buying trip to Spain, scouring antique shops, buying "furiously" thousands of items: wrought iron, tapestries, furniture, grillwork, and whole staircases. He was accompanied by one of his clients, Eleanor Cosden, who is reported to have recalled "the guide in

12642-455: The following year, Forbes reported the town had 30-plus billionaires. Palm Beach had the 40th-highest percentage of Russian residents in the United States in 2000, with 10.30% of the populace – tied with Pomona, New York , and the township of Lower Merion, Pennsylvania . It also had the 26th highest percentage of Austrian residents in the United States, at 2.10% of the town's population, tied with 19 other municipalities in

12789-427: The future Seaboard Coast Line Railroad line (where an "Addison Station" was to be constructed ) had Spanish personal names: Ponce de Leon , Gonzalo, Juan, Isabel, Hernando, as well as Montazuma [ sic ], and Noche Triste . To the west they were to have the names of small Spanish cities: Tarragona , Cordoba , Toledo , Alcante ( [ sic ], for Alicante ), Burgos , Palencia , Lucena ,

12936-675: The great wealth of the New World has poured in and the owner had added a very rich Renaissance addition." Or as he described his own never-built castle, drawings of which were part of his promotional literature, it would be "a Spanish fortress of the twelfth century captured from its owner by a stronger enemy who, after taking it, adds on one wing and another, and then loses it in turn to another who builds to suit his taste". As these quotes suggest, many Mizner buildings contain styles from more than one period, but all foreign. Born in Benicia , at

13083-541: The hope of passing the entrance examination for the University of California (presently the University of California, Berkeley ). Either he never presented himself for the examination, or he failed it. In any event, that was the end of his formal education. In his own words: I have based my design largely on the old architecture of Spain — with important modifications and to meet Florida conditions. I studied

13230-483: The hotel in 1903 and 1925, but it was rebuilt twice. The Palm Beach Daily News began publication in 1897 originally under the name Daily Lake Worth News . The first pedestrian bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway opened near the modern-day Flagler Bridge in 1901, replacing the original railroad spur. Flagler's house lots were bought by the beneficiaries of the Gilded Age , and in 1902, Flagler himself built

13377-428: The hottest, southern part of Spain, Andalucía ; colonial Guatemala had similar architecture. He taught workmen to make Spanish red roof tiles, appropriate for the climate. A scholar states that Mizner's mature style was "founded upon the architecture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain", although the Alhambra is older and Guatemala was primarily the workmanlike eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture of

13524-421: The iron, made wormholes with an icepick, cracked a mantle with a sledgehammer , all creating what he called "the kiss of the centuries." He hired inexperienced help to lay roof tiles awry, and once had men in hobnailed boots walk up and down a stairway before the cement set to get the effect of centuries of wear. One of his original contributions to architecture was the discovery that worm-eaten cypress gave

13671-474: The island and acts as a seaward barrier. The former slough areas are flood-prone. The town and entire barrier island are within Evacuation Zone B, and evacuations are often ordered if a hurricane is forecast to impact the area, most recently in anticipation of Hurricane Dorian in 2019. Palm Beach town officials may deploy law enforcement officers to strategically place roadblocks to limit access to

13818-470: The island during unsafe conditions. As of 2016, land use of the town is 60% residential, 13% rights-of-way , 10% private group uses, 3% recreational, 3% commercial, 2% public uses, 1% hotels (not including The Breakers), and less than 1% conservation, while The Breakers is a planned unit development accounting for 6% of land use. The remaining 2% of land was vacant. Palm Beach does not have any land dedicated to agricultural or industrial purposes. The town

13965-469: The last direct hit in 1928 . The wet season is from May to October, when convective thunderstorms and downpours are common. Average high temperatures in Palm Beach are 83 to 91 °F (28 to 33 °C) with lows of 68 to 76 °F (20 to 24 °C), though low temperatures at or above 80 °F (27 °C) are not uncommon. During this period, more than half of the summer days bring occasional afternoon thunderstorms and seabreezes that somewhat cool

14112-557: The last weekend of his life in Palm Beach, several days before his assassination in November 1963 . Yvelyne "Deedy" Marix became the first woman elected to the town council in February 1970, and later became the first woman elected mayor of Palm Beach in 1983. Between 1971 and 1977, Earl E.T. Smith served as mayor of Palm Beach. He was previously an Ambassador of the United States to Cuba . Preservationist Barbara Hoffstot published

14259-681: The latter being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 due to its status as "the town's original Main Street ", as noted by the Palm Beach Daily News . The Society of the Four Arts is a nonprofit charity organization established in 1936. Located on the north side of Royal Palm Way near the Royal Park Bridge , the Four Arts Plaza has an art gallery, a concert hall auditorium, two libraries,

14406-532: The love did not last long, as she "had fallen out of a window at the Waldorf-Astoria and had been instantly killed". At the same time, when he was living in San Francisco, he had "an emotional relationship with a young man, Jack Baird". He described a buying trip to Europe with Margaret "Peggy" Thayer, "a wicked little devil", as "the happiest two months of my life". (His story that he had had

14553-468: The lowest observed temperature, 24 °F (−4 °C), occurred on December 29, 1894, during the Great Freeze . In some years, the dry season can become quite dry, and water restrictions are imposed. The town's population peaked at 10,468 people in the 2000 census but fell by 20.3% to 8,348 people in 2010. However, during the "winter season", defined as November through April,

14700-485: The museum annually. Adjacent to the Flagler Museum and behind the Royal Poinciana Chapel is a giant, almost 200-year old kapok tree , which also attracts visitors. The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach established Pan's Garden in 1994 along Hibiscus Avenue between Chilean Avenue and Peruvian Avenue. The garden has a statue of Pan (originally designed in 1890 by Frederick William MacMonnies ),

14847-403: The name of a Spanish city. In 1903 Mizner provided illustrations for The Limerick Up to Date Book of Ethel Watts Mumford (San Francisco: Paul Elder). It says something about Mizner that he would illustrate this poem: There was a young person of Tottenhem, Whose manners, Good Lord! she'd forgotten them. When she went to the vicar's, She took off her knickers Because she said she

14994-700: The nursery business and build a tree-moving machine. What fun it was teaching men how to stucco, teaching others how to cure pip in chickens, clearing jungles, killing land crabs, catching alligators. It was all like a game." He returned to Guatemala for a few months in 1904. His original plan, never implemented, was to buy coffee to sell in the U.S. (This turned later into a nonexistent coffee plantation that he bought. ) Instead, realizing how many antiquities were available for modest amounts, especially in Guatemala's abandoned former capital Antigua , he began collecting Hispanic antiquities. He purchased an old monastery –

15141-475: The oceanfront hotel redesigned, so construction began on the smaller and financially more viable 100-room inn on the west side of Lake Boca Raton. Mizner's development company, hurt by the end of the Florida land boom of the 1920s and the 1926 Miami hurricane , declared bankruptcy in 1926. Philadelphia utility millionaire Clarence H. Geist bought its assets in 1927, and he expanded the Cloister Inn into

15288-466: The only native-born mayor of Palm Beach in its history. In the 1950s, the town's population grew around 56%, from 3,866 in 1950 to 6,055 in 1960. John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States in 1960 , and selected as his Winter White House La Querida , which his father bought in 1933. In December 1960, police in Palm Beach averted a retired postal worker's attempt to assassinate then president-elect Kennedy. The president also spent

15435-557: The palace/monastery Escorial , and even small towns: Monreal (name of several towns), Munera . In the planned Spanish Village neighborhood ("Mizner Plat 11"), projected streets had Spanish names: the main Alvarado Road, and crossing it, fanciful names, not all of which are visible in the photograph: Ébano, Feraz, Grúa, Haz, Ídolo, Jasmine, Kay, Labio, Malvis, Nao, Orear, Prado, Quevedo, Rocinante, and Salerno. The different types of pottery produced by Mizner Industries each had

15582-438: The permanent dredging of the inlet in 1918. To the south, a section of Lake Worth Beach occupies the island in the vicinity of State Road 802 , though an exclave of Palm Beach extends farther southward until the northern limits of South Palm Beach . According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the town has an area of 8.12 sq mi (21.0 km ), with land accounting for 4.20 sq mi (10.9 km ) and water covering

15729-455: The population of Palm Beach swells to around 25,000. The town's affluence and its recreational facilities, shops, restaurants, social scene, and "community-oriented sensibility" were cited when it was selected in June 2003 as America's "Best Place to Live" by Robb Report magazine. Palm Beach ranked as the 27th-wealthiest place in the United States in 2016 according to Bloomberg News . In

15876-459: The profession of his day." In 1904 he relocated to New York City, and then to nearby Port Washington , Long Island . During his first five years in New York, Mizner never built a house. The commissions he did receive were for interior design, which in two cases were the interior of yachts , and in designing gardens. Eventually he designed numerous country houses across Long Island and

16023-438: The project that made him famous, was the Everglades Club , which opened in January 1919. It was a "revelation" and its architectural effect "cannot be exaggerated". Another scholar says that Mizner "revolutionized Palm Beach architecture". No one had seen anything like it: a "gorgeous pink stucco palace, with arcades, wrought-iron balconies, and terra-cotta-tile roofs." There were two four-hundred-year-old doors, and chairs of

16170-581: The property in 1959 to prevent its demolition. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and the National Historic Landmark list in 2000, the museum replicates the original appearance of the house and has exhibits about Flagler himself, Flagler's personal railcar (built in 1886), the Florida East Coast Railway , life in the Gilded Age , and the early history of Palm Beach. Almost 100,000 people visit

16317-664: The publicly-traded owner and operator of five Florida resorts. In February 2009, the Beach Club finished a $ 150 million renovation, while the cloister and tower rooms were redesigned in 2006. In May 2009, Hilton announced that the resort would be the 13th property to join The Waldorf Astoria Collection . MSD Partners L.P. , led by Michael Dell , purchased the Boca Raton Resort & Club on June 4, 2019. The new owners, as of 2020, have made

16464-716: The region. In 1907, he and William Massarene designed White Pine Camp , a retreat in the Adirondack Mountains , later used by U. S. President Calvin Coolidge as his "Summer White House". He also designed Rock Hall in Connecticut and the main house of the Hitchcock Estate in Dutchess County, New York . In January 1918, aged 46, Mizner visited Palm Beach, Florida for his health, at

16611-499: The remaining 3.92 sq mi (10.2 km ). The average elevation of the town is 7 ft (2.1 m); the highest point is 30 ft (9.1 m) above sea level on the golf course at the Palm Beach Country Club. Geologically, the island is a sand-covered ridge of coquina rock . Before settlement, the island was a pronounced coastal ridge bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The Intracoastal Waterway coast

16758-436: The resort's beach club in 1980, on the site that Mizner had intended the main hotel to stand on. VMS Realty, Incorporated (Van Kampen, Morris, Stone), the successors to Arvida regarding ownership, purchased the property in 1983 and renamed it in 1988 as the Boca Raton Resort & Club. In 2004, The Blackstone Group , a private investment firm, acquired the resort as part of its $ 1.25-billion acquisition of Boca Resorts, Inc.,

16905-523: The rest of the day. The dry season (winter) brings dryer, sunny, and much less humid weather. Between December and March, average high temperatures range from 74 to 82 °F (23 to 28 °C) and low temperatures average between 57 and 68 °F (14 and 20 °C). High temperatures occasionally drop below 70 °F (21 °C), while at other times highs occasionally reach 90 °F (32 °C) in mid-winter. The highest recorded temperature, 101 °F (38 °C), occurred on July 21, 1941, while

17052-691: The same antiquity. Hispanic tiles were everywhere. "It took the place by storm", said Singer years later. An even larger project, the 147-room mansion El Mirasol (demolished), followed in 1919. Mizner received many subsequent commissions, in what was the most successful part of his career. From 1919 to 1924 he designed about thirty-eight houses in Palm Beach. His clients were wealthy and socially prominent: Gurnee Munn , John Shaffer Phipps , Barclay Harding Warburton II , Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. , Edward Shearson , Rodman Wanamaker , Paul Moore Sr. , and Eva Stotesbury among them. For them, he created "a Mediterranean village". To make materials for

17199-524: The somber architectural style of Castile, where Toledo was, and a similarity between the two buildings is difficult to see. Similarly, he invented the connection between the tower of the Cloister Inn, which is vaguely Spanish, with the Giralda tower of the Cathedral of Seville. The San Francisco Ferry Building (1892) — a project of his mentor Polk (see below) — does have a tower that clearly resembles

17346-439: The south of Spain. Like a colonial Spanish architect would have, in many cases he worked without paper plans. Many of Mizner's projects have Spanish names: El Mirasol, El Solano, La Ronda (discussed below), and others. In his never-realized plan for Boca Raton, between the present Palmetto Park Road and Hillsboro Boulevard, the main street, El Camino Real, has a Spanish name, though, in another of his fanciful stories, he claimed it

17493-420: The state attorney of Palm Beach County only charged Epstein with soliciting a prostitute and soliciting a minor for prostitution in June 2008. He pleaded guilty on both counts and received a controversial plea deal . The town had a population of 8,348 people in 2010, a decrease of 20.3% from the previous census. Palm Beach celebrated its centennial on April 17, 2011. About 1,200 people attended

17640-727: The state level is part of the 89th district of the Florida House of Representatives , which covers many of the immediate coastal cities in Palm Beach County from Palm Beach Shores southward. Palm Beach is also part of the 30th district of the Florida Senate , which includes northeastern and some of east-central Palm Beach County. Two districts represent the town at the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners. The town north of Worth Avenue

17787-489: The suggestion of Paris Singer , whose house guest he was. He was "prepared to die", but instead recovered. He decided to stay. The existing architecture in Palm Beach was wooden – Flagler's two hotels, the Royal Poinciana and The Breakers (burned 1925), were wooden — and in a style better suited for colder weather, Mizner tells us. Familiar from Guatemala with Hispanic warm climate architecture, he chose it as

17934-526: The temple steps in three hundred and seventy years". However, at least six other white men visited and wrote about Copán in the 19th century, not counting the expeditions of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University . His well-informed father, the U.S. ambassador, surely knew about some of these visitors. Mizner also omitted embarrassing information: he said his father retired as ambassador because "father's health broke down", when in fact his father

18081-542: The things he was noted for was the kindness toward the people who worked for him and the courtesy he showed them. Some of the other architects of this era were almost the reverse; they saw the other architects as their employees, and they should have nothing to do with the design other than putting it on paper. Mizner was not that way. When the bust began in Florida, he actually helped some of the young architects get established elsewhere. The vast majority of Mizner's employees developed an affection for and allegiance to him: "It

18228-605: The time "the educational center of California", and (briefly) its state capital, he traveled as a child with his father, Lansing B. Mizner , a lawyer, former President of the California Senate and the U. S. Minister to Central America, based in Guatemala . As a young man, he visited China in 1893, was briefly a gold miner in the Yukon (1898–99) (Canada, not Alaska). Of his seven siblings, six of them boys, he

18375-550: The town council, is composed of five members, who serve two-year terms and seek office in staggered, at-large, non-partisan elections. Once a month, the town council meets at the Palm Beach Town Hall , though special meetings may be conducted as needed. The mayor, also elected to two year terms, acts as ombudsman and an intergovernmental figure. Danielle Moore, a former three-term member of the town council, has served as mayor since April 13, 2021. Additionally,

18522-660: The town experienced coastal flooding , especially along Ocean Boulevard. By that afternoon, police allowed only residents to enter the town. The trial of William Kennedy Smith , a member of the Kennedy family , drew international media attention in 1991. Smith had been accused of committing rape at La Querida, but a trial at the Palm Beach County Court resulted in his acquittal on December 11, 1991. Another notable mayor, Paul Ilyinsky , son of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia and heiress Audrey Emery ,

18669-571: The town of Palm Beach had an estimated labor force of 2,788 people. Palm Beach had an unemployment rate of just 2.3%, although 66% of the town's population was not in the labor force. The most common professions among the town's labor force are finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing (24.1%); professional, scientific, management, administrative, and waste management services (23.6%); retail (12.2%); and educational services, health care, and social assistance (10.5%). However, as of 2017, only 4.1% of jobs in Palm Beach were held by residents of

18816-519: The town of Palm Beach, with sustained winds of 145 mph (235 km/h). High winds and storm surge damaged 610 businesses, 60 homes, and 10 hotels, as well as to the Public Service Corporation and Ocean Boulevard. Damage in 1928  dollars totaled $ 10 million in Palm Beach. Palm Beach's population grew from 1,707 in 1930 to 3,747 in 1940, a 119.5% increase. The Royal Poinciana Hotel, damaged heavily in

18963-424: The town's first mayor, established Palm Beach's first hotel, the Cocoanut Grove House, in 1880, but Standard Oil tycoon Henry Flagler became instrumental in transforming the island of jungles and swamps into a winter resort for the wealthy. Flagler and his workers constructed the Royal Poinciana Hotel in 1894, The Breakers in 1896, and Whitehall in 1902; extended the Florida East Coast Railway southward to

19110-562: The town, the Palm Beach Municipal Beach, Phipps Ocean Park, and R. G. Kreusler Park. The former, also known as Midtown Beach, has metered parking spots along South Ocean Boulevard from Royal Palm Way southward to Hammon Avenue. Phipps Ocean Park includes the Little Red Schoolhouse, the first school building in southeast Florida (built in 1886), restored and moved from its original location near where

19257-407: The town, with the most common other home destinations being West Palm Beach (15.4%), Palm Beach Gardens (3.9%), Lake Worth Beach (3.7%), Wellington (3.3%), and Greenacres (3.1%). Tourism is a major industry in the town, bringing in around $ 5 billion in annual revenue. Palm Beach has several historical and luxurious hotels and lodgings, most notably The Brazilian Court , The Breakers ,

19404-778: The war, the Boca Raton Club's ownership and ultimately name were changed. The Schine family purchased the club in 1944, renaming it the Boca Hotel and Club. While it was affectionately known on brochures as The Boca Raton, the resort was part of the identical Schine portfolio which included the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables and the McAllister Hotel in Miami . Arthur Vining Davis , whose brainchild

19551-633: The whole building. "The reason I wanted it was that eight of the side chapels of the church were intact and in each stood, thirty feet high, carved wood altars with heavy gilding." He also returned with a book of sketches of the architectural features of Antigua. This was a turning point in his decision to become an architect. Relocating to New York in 1904, he filled his apartment with his Guatemala purchases: rich velvet and damask vestments , ornate carved church paneling, reliquaries , gilded candlesticks, and other rare ornaments. He made "good money" selling them to visitors. In 1905, Mizner visited Spain for

19698-581: Was a pleasure working for Mizner", one remarked. Addison accompanied his father when the latter travelled to Guatemala in August 1889 to begin his duties there. His first stop, aged 15, on the boat to Guatemala was Mazatlán , Mexico. This was Addison's first direct contact with the Hispanic world, which he described as "the greatest day of my life". His father Lansing Mizner spoke fluent Spanish, as did his paternal step-grandfather, James Semple , also

19845-487: Was an American architect whose Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style interpretations changed the character of southern Florida , where the style is continued by architects and land developers . During the 1920s Mizner was perhaps the best-known living American architect. Palm Beach, Florida , which he "transformed", was his home, and most of his houses are there. He believed that architecture should also include interior and garden design, and initiated

19992-406: Was anything but a follower of styles. He would improvise a building's design as he went; he was someone who "would take a lot of liberties", who "let his imagination run riot". In the end, Mizner would create a pink-walled, red-tiled, wrought iron-gated world of unreal luxury. Developers loved the Mizner style because it gave their brand-new developments an air of established, Old World elegance. It

20139-438: Was assassinated in 1898. Much later, Addison said several times that he enrolled "at some point during this time" in the University of Salamanca , in Spain, though the only known detail about his studies there, if they existed, is that he did not receive a degree. There is no confirmation that he ever studied there (and Salamanca 's isolation makes it an unlikely choice for a foreign student). The only cities in Spain that it

20286-451: Was closest to his younger brother Wilson , though his disreputable behavior caused Addison many problems. He had a macaw parrot. and kept as pets a series of monkeys, which often rode on his shoulder; his favorite had a headstone at his grave, identifying him as "Johnnie Brown, The Human Monkey, Died April 30, 1927". In 1932 Mizner published The Many Mizners , an autobiography covering his youth, year mining, and time in New York until

20433-442: Was dismissed by Secretary of State James G. Blaine after a diplomatic incident. It was on this journey that he received his first monkey, named Deuteronomy , who drowned, on the return voyage from Nicaragua to Guatemala, after she was hit on the head with a trombone ( n.b. ) and fell overboard. As he told it in a totally fictitious tale, he laid out the town of Dawson Creek, British Columbia , with no tape measure. He told

20580-530: Was elected to the office in February 1993. The town's population peaked at 10,468 people in the 2000 census. In March 2005, the Palm Beach Police Department – under the guidance of Police Chief Michael Reiter – began the first inquiry into the crimes committed by sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein , leading to his arrest and indictment in July 2006. Despite an FBI investigation discovering at least 40 victims,

20727-469: Was hot in them. In 1902, with Oliver Herford and Ethel Watts Mumford, he published an annual illustrated The Complete Cynic. Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner . This produced such sayings as: "A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often" and "Many are called but few get up". Mizner was a storyteller but not

20874-441: Was imitated in new developments in the Florida peninsula. "It is style," said Donald Curl. "As an architect, he introduced Mediterranean revival, or Spanish revival, or whatever you wanted to call it. He made it not only popular but fashionable. Mizner was someone who was willing to take a lot of liberties and design buildings that were good for the climate and the lifestyle of the people who were his clients." "I never begin to design

21021-785: Was incorporated in 1924 and immediately appointed him city planner. Boca Raton's original City Hall , which currently houses the city's Welcome Center and the Boca Raton History Museum , began as his project, though because of the bankruptcy of Mizner Industries he did not complete it, and it is more modest than he planned. He began by forming the Mizner Development Corporation, a syndicate of prominent investors including Rodman Wanamaker , Paris Singer , Irving Berlin , William Kissam Vanderbilt II , Elizabeth Arden , Jesse Livermore , Clarence H. Geist , and T. Coleman du Pont as chairman. In March

21168-457: Was inspired by Rio de Janeiro 's Botafogo neighborhood. (What Mizner's commissioned painting on the cover of his first (1925) brochure does resemble in Rio de Janeiro, is the pt:Canal do Mangue , which runs down the middle of a wide street, but is nowhere near Botafogo, which he may have mentioned because it seemed like a more elegant name ("Mouth of Fire") than Mangue " mangrove ". ) Streets east of

21315-406: Was one of the largest manufacturing companies in Palm Beach County. Mizner lacked the talent for making conventional plans and specifications. Everything was done off-the-cuff. Plans for one house were drawn in the sand on the beach. He was a pioneer in developing artificial or cast stone, a combination of coquina shell, lime , and a cement mixture. He also used "woodite", a composite material with

21462-402: Was primarily low-lying and swampy; marshy sloughs generally lay between the two features, though an oolitic limestone ridge stood along some parts of the island's westward side. Since 1883, the environment has been significantly altered by developing land, the filling of the sloughs, and a receding coastline due to erosion, but the Atlantic ridge is still the dominating topographical feature of

21609-571: Was the Arvida Corporation , was responsible for modernizing the hotel. Opening the Boca Raton Club Tower in 1969, the building is still considerably taller than any other building in southern Palm Beach County . In addition, its famous "Boca pink" color has made it more famous than its stature of 300 feet (ninety-one meters) and twenty-seven floors, and it is commonly referred to as the "pink hotel". Arvida also constructed

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