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James Deering | |
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 James Deering, 1917, by John Singer Sargent | |
| Born | November 12, 1859 |
| Died | September 21, 1925 (aged 65) aboard SS Paris |
| Occupation(s) | Industrialist, art collector |
| Known for | building Villa Vizcaya |
James Deering (November 12, 1859 – September 21, 1925) was an American executive in the management of his family's Deering Harvester Company and later International Harvester, as well as a socialite and an antiquities collector. He built his landmark Vizcaya estate, where he was an early 20th-century resident on Biscayne Bay in the present day Coconut Grove district of Miami, Florida. Begun in 1910, with architecture and gardens in a Mediterranean Revival style, Vizcaya was his passionate endeavor with artist Paul Chalfin, and his winter home from 1916 to his death in 1925.[1]
- ^ Griswold, Mac and Weller, Eleanor. The Golden Age of American Gardens, proud owners-private estates 1890 - 1940. Harry N. Abrams. N.Y. 1991. ISBN 0-8109-2737-3. pp. 174–76