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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 ...
James Deering, the patron of Vizcaya. James Deering (1859–1925) was a retired millionaire and a bachelor in his early fifties when he undertook the challenge to build an elaborate estate in South Florida. He was afflicted with pernicious anemia, a condition for which doctors recommended sunshine and a warm climate: Vizcaya became the place ...
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James Deering. Photo courtesy of the Vizcaya Archives. James Deering (1859-1925), Vizcaya’s owner, was the vice president of his family’s business, International Harvester, the leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery in the United States around 1900. In 1908 Deering retired and began planning a winter retreat in Miami to escape Chicago’s cold winters. Reflecting his interests […]
With timeless Mediterranean-style architecture, and collections dating from the early 20th-century all the way back to Pompeii, Vizcaya’s Main House was the jewel of a fledgling Miami when it was built between 1914 and 1922. A century later, Vizcaya is just as relevant. It’s a cultural destination tens of thousands of visitors from all over ...
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 ...
Built as a winter residence for James Deering, an executive of the International Harvester company and one of the wealthiest men in the country in the early 1900s, Vizcaya was the site of lavish parties between its completion in 1916 and Deering's death in 1925. The mansion was built to resemble an Italian estate with seventy rooms featuring Deering's collection of antiquities from around the ...
Dec 7, 2015 · Construction on Vizcaya began in the fall of 1913, and Deering moved into the home on Christmas Day, 1916. Deering wanted all of the latest technology available incorporated into the home ...
