Editing Addison Mizner (section)

==Biography==
Born in [[Benicia, California|Benicia]], at the time "the educational center of California",<ref name=Many />{{rp|8}} 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 [[United States|U. S.]] [[minister (diplomacy)|Minister]] to Central America, based in [[Guatemala]].
As a young man, he visited China in 1893,<ref name=Seebohm />{{rp|54}} was briefly a gold miner in the [[Yukon]] (1898–99) (Canada, not Alaska).<ref name=Federal>{{citation
|title=Florida. A Guide to the Southernmost State
|year=1939
|place=New York
|author=Federal Writers' Project
|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>{{rp|229}}<ref name="Seebohm">{{cite book
|isbn=978-0609605158
|publisher=Clarkson Potter
|date=2001
|title=Boca Rococo. How Addison Mizner Invented Florida's Gold Coast
|first=Caroline
|last=Seebohm
|url-access=registration
|url=https://archive.org/details/bocarococohowadd00seeb
}}</ref>{{rp|65–83 and 93}} Of his seven siblings, six of them boys, he was closest to his younger brother [[Wilson Mizner|Wilson]], though his disreputable behavior caused Addison many problems. {{rp|125}} He had a [[macaw]] parrot.<ref name="Silvin">{{cite book |last=Silvin |first=Richard René |title=Villa Mizner: The House that Changed Palm Beach |publisher=Star Group Books |year=2014 |isbn=978-1884886744}}</ref>{{rp|15}} 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". 
<ref name=Seebohm/>
 
In 1932 Mizner published ''The Many Mizners'', an autobiography covering his youth, year mining, and time in New York until 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.<ref name=PerkinsCaughman />{{rp|301}} Mizner died in 1933 of heart failure in Palm Beach<ref name=Seebohm />{{rp|254}} and is buried in the family vault at [[Cypress Lawn Memorial Park]].<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 32847). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref>

According to Donald Curl, author of ''Mizner's Florida'',
 
<blockquote>
He was just completely outgoing and basically a really good guy. One of 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.<ref name=Bubil >{{cite web
|title=Architect Addison Mizner: Villain or visionary?
|first=Harold
|last=Bubil
|date=January 27, 2008
|newspaper=Sarasota Herald Tribune
|url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20080127/architect-addison-mizner-villain-or-visionary
|access-date=January 2, 2018
|quote=Review of Donald Vickers, ''Panic in Paradise''.
|archive-date=December 22, 2017
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222052146/http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20080127/architect-addison-mizner-villain-or-visionary
|url-status=live
}}</ref>
</blockquote>

The vast majority of Mizner's employees developed an affection for and allegiance to him: "It was a pleasure working for Mizner", one remarked.<ref name=Silvin />{{rp|79}}<ref name=PerkinsCaughman />{{rp|203–204, 218}}