Boca Raton Historical Society: 2 books
Boomtime Boca
Boca Raton in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2007
Boca Raton, Florida, was a tiny farming community onthe southeastern coast of Florida when the state�s 1920s real estate boom grew into a national phenomenon. Investors and new residents were drawn to the state from all over the country, a time Floridians referred to as �the Boom.� In April 1925,...
by Donald Curl, Boca Raton Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The Boca Raton Resort & Club, originally known as the Cloister Inn, was designed by famed Palm Beach architect Addison Mizner to house prospective investors in his plannedBoca Raton development. His dream, however, dissolved with the end of the Florida land boom and the 1926 Miami hurricane, as his Cloister...