Editing Addison Mizner (section)

==Mizner's Hispanism==
Addison accompanied his father when the latter travelled to Guatemala in August 1889 to begin his duties there.<ref name=Curl />{{rp|7}} 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".<ref>Seebohm 2001. p. 38</ref> His father [[Lansing Mizner]] spoke fluent Spanish,<ref>Seebohm 2001. pp. 13, 33.</ref> as did his paternal step-grandfather, [[James Semple]], also a U.S. diplomat in Spanish America. Addison, who became fluent,<ref>Seebohm 2001. p. 183.</ref> after some tutoring enrolled at the [[Instituto Nacional]] in Guatemala City,<ref name="Orr">{{citation
|last=Orr
|publisher=[[Norton Museum of Art|Norton Gallery (now Museum) of Art]]
|year=1977
|title=Addison Mizner, Architect of Dreams and Reality
|first=Christina}}</ref>{{rp|7}} "where we learned that boys fought with knives and not with fists".<ref name=Many />{{rp|49}} He remained there for a year, visiting Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras with his father,<ref>Seebohm 2001. pp. 36–39</ref> before returning to California in 1890 to study at the [[Bates School (San Rafael)|Bates School]], a boarding school in [[San Rafael, California]].<ref>Seebohm 2001. pp. 39, 45–46.</ref> His studies there ended in 1891 because of his brother [[Wilson Mizner|Wilson's]] expulsion for misbehavior.<ref>Seebohm 2001. p. 46</ref> He continued his studies briefly at [[Boone's College]] in [[Berkeley, California]], with 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,<ref>Seebohm 2001. pp. 47–48</ref> or he failed it.<ref name=Curl />{{rp|9}}<ref name=Many />{{rp|63}} In any event, that was the end of his formal education.

In his own words:

<blockquote>
I have based my design largely on the old architecture of Spain — with important modifications and to meet Florida conditions. I studied the architecture of Spain itself and drew somewhat on my knowledge of Spanish tropical America.<ref name="Orr" />{{rp|22}}</blockquote>

In one of his advertisements:

<blockquote>
<big>'''Spanish Art'''</big> 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.<ref name=Boomtime />{{rp|54}}
</blockquote>

He also assembled an excellent library on Spanish and Spanish Colonial architecture, which has survived and is now administered by the [[Historical Society of Palm Beach County]].<ref name="Orr" />{{rp|22}}

The first idea of Mizner about his first Florida building, now the [[Everglades Club]], was that it should contain "a [[Moorish]] tower",<ref>Seebohm 2001. p. 157</ref> a clear reference to the [[Alhambra]], which Mizner visited and commented on. The [[Mediterranean Revival]] style Mizner introduced to [[South Florida]] was not [[Turquerie|Turkish]] or Italian, it was Spanish, specifically of 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.<ref>Seebohm 2001. p. 161</ref> A scholar states that Mizner's mature style was "founded upon the architecture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain",<ref name=Ohr />{{rp|49}} although the [[Alhambra]] is older and Guatemala was primarily the workmanlike eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture of 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 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]]".<ref>{{cite book
|title=Canal do Mangue, Rio de Janeiro RJ
|author=Conde de Agrolongo
|date=1908
|url=http://enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br/obra16542/canal-do-mangue-rio-de-janeiro-rj
|publisher=Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural
|isbn=9788579790607
|access-date=February 2, 2018
|archive-date=February 3, 2018
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203005841/http://enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br/obra16542/canal-do-mangue-rio-de-janeiro-rj
|url-status=live
}}</ref>) Streets east of the future [[Seaboard Coast Line Railroad]] line (where an "Addison Station" was to be constructed<ref name=Boomtime />{{rp|50}}<ref name=PerkinsCaughman>{{cite book
|title=Addison Mizner. The Architect Whose Genius Defined Palm Beach
|year=2018
|first1=Stephen
|last1=Perkins
|first2=James
|last2=Caughman
|publisher=[[Lyons Press]]
|isbn=9781493026562}}</ref>{{rp|14}}) had Spanish personal names: [[Juan Ponce de León|Ponce de Leon]], Gonzalo, Juan, Isabel, Hernando, as well as [[Moctezuma II|Montazuma]] {{sic}}, and [[Noche Triste]]. To the west they were to have the names of small Spanish cities: [[Tarragona]], [[Córdoba, Spain|Cordoba]], [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]], Alcante ({{sic}}, for [[Alicante]]), [[Burgos]], [[Palencia]], [[Lucena, Córdoba|Lucena]], the palace/monastery [[Escorial]], and even small towns: [[Monreal (disambiguation)|Monreal]] (name of several towns), [[Munera]].<ref>{{citation
|author=Mizner Development Corp.
|title=Boca Raton
|year=1925
|url=http://www.bocahistory.org/eGallery/upload/Boca%20Raton%20Historical%20Society/Boca%20Raton%20Historical%20Society/Files/OurHistory_MDCBR1925I.pdf
|access-date=December 15, 2017
|archive-date=April 12, 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412190400/https://www.bocahistory.org/eGallery/upload/Boca%20Raton%20Historical%20Society/Boca%20Raton%20Historical%20Society/Files/OurHistory_MDCBR1925I.pdf
|url-status=live
}}</ref>{{rp|16–17}}<ref name=Boomtime />{{rp|41}} 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.<ref>{{cite journal
|title=Boca Raton's Spanish Village
|first=Michael
|last=Wright
|date=November 2012
|journal=Spanish River Papers
|publisher=Boca Raton Historical Society
|volume=21
|pages=1–12
|url=https://www.bocahistory.org/eGallery/upload/Boca%20Raton%20Historical%20Society/Boca%20Raton%20Historical%20Society/Files/OurHistory_Mizner_SRP_SpanishVillage.pdf
|access-date=September 4, 2018
|archive-date=November 6, 2015
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106202021/http://www.bocahistory.org/eGallery/upload/Boca%20Raton%20Historical%20Society/Boca%20Raton%20Historical%20Society/Files/OurHistory_Mizner_SRP_SpanishVillage.pdf
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>{{rp|6}} The different types of pottery produced by Mizner Industries each had the name of a Spanish city.<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|53}}