Vizcaya Museum and Gardens stands on Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida, completed in 1916 as a winter residence for the industrialist James Deering, an executive of International Harvester, to a design credited primarily to the architect F. Burrall Hoffman with landscape design by Diego Suarez and interior design by Paul Chalfin. The main house draws on Italian Renaissance villa architecture, while its ten acres of formal gardens, modeled on Italian and French garden traditions, include an elaborate stone barge breakwater in the bay just offshore, designed both to protect the shoreline from waves and to serve as a decorative garden folly in its own right. Deering built the estate using largely local labor and craftsmen, drawing skilled workers from the Bahamas among other sources, at a time when Miami was still a small and sparsely developed city, and the estate is credited with helping establish South Florida as a destination for elaborate seasonal residences. Miami-Dade County acquired Vizcaya in 1952, and it now operates as a museum and National Historic Landmark open to the public.
Facts
Building Type
Building Type (category) Building Type (category) Building Type (category) Building TypeItalian Renaissance-revival villa, house museum 2 LocationMiami, Florida, United States 2 Completed Year Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (Wikipedia)
Source Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationEntity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens stands on Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida, completed in 1916 as a winter residence for the industrialist James Deering, an executive of International Harvester, to a design credited primarily to the architect F. Burrall Hoffman with landscape design by Diego Suarez and interior design by Paul Chalfin. The main house draws on Italian Renaissance villa architecture, while its ten acres of formal gardens, modeled on Italian and French garden traditions, include an elaborate stone barge breakwater in the bay just offshore, designed both to protect the shoreline from waves and to serve as a decorative garden folly in its own right. Deering built the estate using largely local labor and craftsmen, drawing skilled workers from the Bahamas among other sources, at a time when Miami was still a small and sparsely developed city, and the estate is credited with helping establish South Florida as a destination for elaborate seasonal residences. Miami-Dade County acquired Vizcaya in 1952, and it now operates as a museum and National Historic Landmark open to the public.
Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field
completion_date/completed = 1914-23
In Style: Renaissance Architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Mediterranean Revival Style; with Baroque, Italian Renaissance, Italian Renaissance Revival
In Style: Renaissance Revival architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Mediterranean Revival Style; with Baroque, Italian Renaissance, Italian Renaissance Revival
View the Source 2. Main House | Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Main House page introduction
Vizcaya is located in the Coconut Grove area of Miami.
Main House page, design description paragraph
Vizcaya was conceived as a modern and subtropical interpretation of an eighteenth-century Italian villa, in particular the country estates of the Veneto region of northern Italy.
View the Source3. Wikidata: Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
- Wikidata Q2095464, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q2095464, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
View the SourceReader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.