The Boca Raton Resort & Club, which opened February 6, 1926 as the Ritz-Carlton Cloister Inn, is a large resort and membership-based club located in Boca Raton, Florida. Originally designed by California-born architect, Addison Mizner, it was supposed to have been the latter of two resorts, the other being an oceanfront hotel; however, the Ritz-Carlton Investment Corporation became involved in the project and wanted the oceanfront hotel redesigne...
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The Boca Raton Resort & Club, which opened February 6, 1926 as the Ritz-Carlton Cloister Inn, is a large resort and membership-based club located in Boca Raton, Florida. Originally designed by California-born architect, Addison Mizner, it was supposed to have been the latter of two resorts, the other being an oceanfront hotel; however, the Ritz-Carlton Investment Corporation became involved in the project and wanted the oceanfront hotel redesigned so construction began on the smaller 100 room inn on the west side of lake. Throughout the Florida land boom of the 1920s, Mizner visioned and began to plan Boca Raton as a major resort destination. To that extent a golf course and residential community, the Ritz-Carlton Park, was planned west of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. Today this is the site of Sugar Sand Park and Boca Del Mar. Nevertheless the resort didn't gain a full service country club until the acquisition of the Boca Country Club seven miles northwest of the main hotel,...
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