Editing Addison Mizner (section)

{{Short description|American architect (1872–1933)}}{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2021}}
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 | name             = Addison Mizner 
 | image            = Addison Mizner.jpg
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 | birth_date       = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1872|12|12}}
 | birth_place      = [[Benicia, California]], U.S.
 | death_date       = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1933|2|5|1872|12|12}}
 | death_place      = [[Palm Beach, Florida]], U.S.
 | resting_place    = [[Cypress Lawn Memorial Park]], [[Colma, California]], U.S.
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 | occupation       = Architect
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 | notable_works    = [[Everglades Club]]<br/>[[El Mirasol (mansion)|El Mirasol]] (demolished)<br/>[[Riverside Baptist Church]]<br/>[[Boca Raton Resort & Club]]<br/>[[La Querida (mansion)|La Querida]] (U.S. President John F. Kennedy's "Winter White House")
 | education        = 
 | relatives        = [[Lansing Bond Mizner]] (father)<br>[[Wilson Mizner]] (brother)
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'''Addison Cairns Mizner''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|aɪ|z|n|ər}} {{respell|MIZE|ner}}) (December 12, 1872 – February 5, 1933) was an American architect whose [[Mediterranean Revival Style architecture|Mediterranean Revival]] and [[Spanish Colonial Revival architecture|Spanish Colonial Revival]] style interpretations changed the character of [[South Florida metropolitan area|southern Florida]], where the style is continued by architects and [[real-estate developer|land developers]].<ref name=Bubil /> During the 1920s Mizner was perhaps the best-known living American architect.<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|5}} [[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 the company Mizner Industries to have a reliable source of components. He was "an architect with a philosophy and a dream".<ref name=Orr1977 >{{citation
|title=Addison Mizner, Architect of Dreams and Realities
|first=Christina
|last=Orr
|year=1977
|publisher=Norton Gallery & School of Art}}</ref>{{rp|5}} [[Boca Raton, Florida]], an unincorporated small farming town that was established in 1896, became the site of Mizner's most famous development project.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of Boca Raton {{!}} Addison Mizner {{!}} Boca Raton Preservation|url=https://www.bocahistory.org/our-history-addison-mizner/|access-date=2021-10-19|website=www.bocahistory.org|archive-date=July 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707120349/https://www.bocahistory.org/our-history-addison-mizner/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The {{convert|6|ft|2|in|m|adj=on}}, {{convert|250|lb|kg|adj=on}} ''bon vivant'' epitomized the "society architect". Rejecting other modern architects for "producing 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 the great wealth of the New World has poured in and the owner had added a very rich Renaissance addition."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.critiquethis.us/2012/01/08/invasive-and-exotic-architectural-species-the-legacy-of-addison-mizner/|title=Invasive and Exotic Architectural Species: The Legacy of Addison Mizner|website=critiquethis.us|access-date=November 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112042740/http://www.critiquethis.us/2012/01/08/invasive-and-exotic-architectural-species-the-legacy-of-addison-mizner/|archive-date=November 12, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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".<ref name=Vickers />{{rp|21}} As these quotes suggest, many Mizner buildings contain styles from more than one period, but all foreign.