Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Vizcaya
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in February 2011
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is located in Miami
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is located in Florida
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is located in the United States
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Location3251 South Miami Avenue
Miami, Florida, U.S.
Coordinates25°44′37″N 80°12′37″W / 25.74361°N 80.21028°W / 25.74361; -80.21028
Area43 acres (17 ha)
Built1914–23[2]
ArchitectF. Burrall Hoffman (architect), Paul Chalfin (designer), and Diego Suarez (landscape architect)[2]
Architectural styleMediterranean Revival Style; with Baroque,[3] Italian Renaissance,[2] Italian Renaissance Revival[4]
NRHP reference No.70000181[1] (original)
78003193 (increase)
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 29, 1970[1]
Boundary increaseNovember 15, 1978
Designated NHLDApril 19, 1994[3]

The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present-day Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida. The early 20th-century Vizcaya estate also includes extensive Italian Renaissance gardens, native woodland landscape, and a historic village outbuildings compound.

The landscape and architecture were influenced by Veneto and Tuscan Italian Renaissance models and designed in the Mediterranean Revival architecture style, with Baroque elements. F. Burrall Hoffman was the architect,[5] Iwahiko Tsumanuma (also known as Thomas Rockrise) was the associate architect,[6] Paul Chalfin was the design director, and Diego Suarez was the landscape architect.[7]

Miami-Dade County now owns the Vizcaya property, as the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, which is open to the public.[8] The location is served by the Vizcaya Station of the Miami Metrorail.

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "Dade County listings". Florida's History Through Its Places. Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs. February 20, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Vizcaya". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on December 2, 2007. Retrieved June 21, 2008.
  4. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination". National Park Service. October 1993.
  5. ^ "Francis Burrall Hoffman, Jr., the Architect". Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
  6. ^ Dubrow, Gail (2021). "Practicing Architecture Under the Bamboo Ceiling: The Life and Work of Iwahiko Tsumanuma (Thomas S. Rockrise), 1878-1936". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 80 (3): 280–303. doi:10.1525/jsah.2021.80.3.280. S2CID 241643066.
  7. ^ "Diego Suarez, the Landscape Architect". Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference miamitodaynews-accessibility-vizcaya was invoked but never defined (see the help page).