How Palm Beach's Old Money Built a Coast of Mansions Then Tore Its Palaces Down: The Lost Cottages

In the winter of 1959, on a stretch of North Ocean Boulevard that most of Palm Beach had learned not to look at, the wrecking crews arrived at the house that had once been the largest on the island. El Mirasol had 37 rooms, a private zoo, and a garage for 40 cars. Addison Mizner had designed it. It was the house that taught Palm Beach what a Palm Beach house could be. The strange part is not that it came down. The strange part is who ordered it — and why the families who built these palaces became the ones who erased them. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mira...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison... https://behindthehedges.com/gary-lawr...