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- Although he had no formal university training, Addison had studied design all his life. He took a job as an apprentice with a Manhattan architectural firm and served 10 years as a country house architect on Long Island. In 1907, he and a colleague designed a house in the Adirondacks that President Coolidge later used as his "summer White House."
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Addison Cairns Mizner (/ ˈ m aɪ z n ər / MIZE-ner) (December 12, 1872 – February 5, 1933) was an American architect whose Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style interpretations left an indelible stamp on South Florida, where it continues to inspire architects and land developers.
May 5, 2018 · Mizner traveled widely in Central America, learned Spanish, and sketched 16th-century architecture. Soon after he returned home to San Francisco he left again, for Spain, enrolling at the University of Salamanca and drawing local medieval architecture, saving the results in voluminous scrapbooks.
May 6, 2019 · Though he was not formally educated in architecture, Mizner trained under Willis Jefferson Polk, the San Francisco designer who oversaw the construction of the Panama–Pacific International...
Addison Mizner did not have formal training in architecture. He apprenticed with Willis Jefferson Polk in San Francisco and worked as an architect in the New York area after the Gold Rush , yet he could never master the task of drawing blueprints.
His buildings are different from anything already known, an invented architecture presenting a fabricated history — houses filled with parts of palazzos (shipped from Europe after summer buying sprees) or ornamental elements manufactured in Mizner’s own shops in West Palm Beach.
Like most members of his profession in these years, he received his formal training as an apprentice to a practicing architect; in Mizner's case, a three year apprenticeship in the office of Willis Polk, later a prominent San Francisco architect.
Addison Mizner was Florida's leading architect in the 1920s. He established his own Spanish and Mediterranean Revival style that became the architectural signature of Florida, and in so doing, created the ambience that truly transformed the landscape of South Florida.
