The dream lasted barely a year. In September 1926 the Great Miami Hurricane tore through South Florida and the land boom collapsed behind it; the Mizner Development Corporation went bankrupt in 1927, and Addison Mizner died, his fortune gone, in 1933. But the architecture outlived the money. The Cloister Inn passed through new owners to become the Boca Raton Club, then the Boca Raton Resort & Club, and finally The Boca Raton, the pink tower of its 1969 addition still presiding over the water. Around it survive the Mediterranean Revival bones Mizner laid down — the bungalows of Old Floresta, the courtyard of The Addison, and the old Town Hall, now the city's history museum.
Today Boca Raton is a city of about a hundred thousand on five miles of Atlantic beach, refined and easygoing at once. Its story runs from the Glades culture and the Spanish inlet, through the pineapple farms and Mizner's 1926 dream, to the radar school, the university, and the birthplace of the personal computer. Our Boca Raton designs gather that layered identity into wearable form — the alligator and the Mediterranean line, the pink tower and the tide. Boca Raton, Florida: the city Addison Mizner built, a hundred years on.
Why People Visit Boca Raton
Boca Raton rewards visitors who want South Florida with a century of style behind it — Addison Mizner's Mediterranean Revival architecture, a beautiful stretch of Atlantic beach, the arts and dining of Mizner Park, and a genuinely surprising history that runs from a secret WWII radar school to the birthplace of the personal computer. People come for the beaches and the resort glamour, for the Boca Raton Museum of Art, and for an easy, refined coastal day with deep roots.
