Vizcaya - View this location on map Vizcaya, which means 'an elevated place' in Basque, was completed in 1916 as the winter home for the industrialist James Deering (1859-1925), who made this a showplace of personal fantasy. Deering's fortune was made in the production of farm machinery. A patron of the arts, Deering asked New York painter and designer Paul Chalfin to advise him on his plans for a Florida home; together, the two men created a melange of Baroque, Rococco, Mannerist, and Louis XIV, adapted to a beach house in South Florida. 3251 South Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida Historical

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