The name came long before the architect. Spanish charts called the inlet here Boca de Ratones — often mistranslated as 'rat's mouth,' but really a sailor's term for an inlet studded with hidden rocks that frayed anchor ropes. Long before that, the Glades culture, ancestors and kin of the Tequesta, lived along this coast and the Intracoastal lagoon for thousands of years. Through the Spanish and British colonial eras and into Florida statehood in 1845, the place stayed wild and thinly settled — a stretch of subtropical coast waiting for a town.
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.
