Editing Addison Mizner (section)

==Mizner's buying trips==
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.<ref name=Ohr >{{cite conference
|pages=43–53
|last=Ohr-Cahall
|first=Christina
|title=Addison—From Scramble {{sic}} Eggs to Red Tile Roofs
|date=1978
|publisher=Oakland Museum
|place=Oakland, California
|quote=Scramble Eggs was the name of one of Mizner's dogs (p. 47)
|book-title=The Many Mizners, California Clan Extraordinaire}}</ref>{{rp|48}}) Instead, realizing how many antiquities were available for modest amounts, especially in Guatemala's abandoned former capital [[Antigua, Guatemala|Antigua]], he began collecting Hispanic antiquities. He purchased an old monastery – 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.<ref name=Seebohm />{{rp|95–97}}

Relocating to New York in 1904, he filled his apartment with his Guatemala purchases: rich velvet and damask [[vestments]], ornate carved church paneling, [[reliquary|reliquaries]], gilded candlesticks, and other rare ornaments. He made "good money" selling them to visitors.<ref name=Seebohm />{{rp|105}}

In 1905, Mizner visited Spain for the first time; after that, he visited Europe every year. After relocating to Florida, these visits occurred during the "off" season.<ref name=Seebohm />{{rp|110}} 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.<ref name=Seebohm />{{rp|183–184, 195}} He was accompanied by one of his clients, Eleanor Cosden, who is reported to have recalled "the guide in the church in Toledo who, Addison pointed out, got several things wrong," and that "he even straightened out our host, the [[Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba|Duke of Alba]]!"<ref name=Silvin/>{{rp|64}} (The Duke of Alba, one of the richest men in Spain, visited Palm Beach in 1926.<ref name=Silvin />{{rp|74}}) In 1926 he went on a similar visit, abbreviated by the financial crisis.<ref name=Seebohm />{{rp|224–225}}