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Boca Raton Celebrates 2025 Centennial Year!

‘Boca Raton 1925-2025: Addison industry and fostered today’s outdoor lifestyles. In nearly Historical Society of Palm Beach County and the Bonnet
Mizner’s Legacy,’ every Boca Raton neighborhood, houses and apartment House Museum & Gardens.

buildings feature patios, terraces, loggias and courtyards
Admission to the entire museum, including this
Boca Historical Society’s Exhibit detailed with Mizner’s wide-ranging artistry borrowed from exhibition, is $12 for adults, $8 for students and free for ages
Spanish medieval towns, Italian Renaissance villas and
under 6 and museum members.
Runs Through May 30 Venetian Gothic palaces. Augustus Mayhew is the guest curator for this exhibition.
The current exhibition’s centerpiece spotlights the Mr. Mayhew is a cultural columnist, architectural historian
As the City of Boca Raton launches a year-round schedule Mizner-designed Cloister Inn’s evolution into a 300-room and photographer. He served as editor and principal writer
of activities and events to celebrate its 100th year, the Boca private sporting club that, after World War II as part of the for the recent publication of “Addison Mizner: A Palm
Raton Historical Society is presenting a fascinating and Schine hotel chain, opened its doors to the community. Today, Beach Memoir,” has functioned as curator for several other
highly recommended multi-media exhibition that showcases Mizner’s dream has become The Boca Raton, a 1,000-room, Addison Mizner museum exhibitions and is the recipient of
our city’s past century of development. multifaceted resort secluded on hundreds of acres. the prestigious 2023 Judge James R. Knott Award for his
It all began when Addison Mizner’s skill and vision The exhibition’s extensive artifacts and furnishings contributions to the preservation, promotion and enrichment
as an architect, city planner and industrialist produced offer museumgoers a multi-dimensional experience, of Palm Beach County’s history.
the innovative and enduring designs that created Boca documenting the city’s past 100 years of development The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum is the home
Raton, one of the world’s ultimate resort destinations and with photographs, drawings, maps and videos conveying of the Boca Raton Historical Society, whose mission is
residential communities. historical narratives that resonate the past. Additionally, to collect, preserve and present information and artifacts
“Contemplating the previous decades of progress gives the Frederick Herpel Collection provides a spectrum of relevant to the past and evolving history of Boca Raton and
us the foundation, perspective and inspiration to make the historical materials produced and imported by Mizner to maintain a visible role in the education and the advocacy
next century even greater than Addison Mizner could have Industries. Among them, floor and roof tiles, sculptural of historic preservation in the community. It is open to the
ever imagined,” notes Mary Csar, Executive Director of the cast stone, fireplace mantles, Corinthian column public Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
Boca Raton Historical Society. capitals, pottery and furnishings afford valuable insight museum is in historic Town Hall at 71 N. Federal Highway
Mizner’s Old World architectural style and manufacturing into Mizner’s creative process. Other lenders to the (33432). For more information call (561) 395-6766 or visit
concerns transformed South Florida’s landscape and building exhibit include the Mizner Library Foundation, Inc., the www.BocaHistory.org.

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(1) Addison Mizner, a 1920s South Florida architect, city planner and real estate developer had a vision of what could be. Mizner purchased the property and, working with his assistants
in a small bungalow (2) in the middle of a mud flat laid out the first plans for a town that became named Boca Ratone. Promoting his dream town to prospective home buyers in ads (3) as
“the most beautiful place in the world,” he set in motion a Centennial success story. Boca Raton was officially incorporated as a city on May 25th 1925, with Mayor John Brown (4) elected
as its first mayor, serving from 1925-1929. The city’s population by 1929 was about 5,000…up from about 200 in 1920. Today, (5) the City of Boca Raton has a population of about 100,000
residents with about 14,000 registered businesses. 1,300,000 people visit Boca each year from outside Palm Beach County and 670,000 additional visit from within the County. The City of
Boca Raton’s present annual operating General Fund budget is $247,425,400 managed by Mayor Scott Singer (6) and the City Council. Mayor Singer is the city’s 35 th Mayor. He was first
elected Mayor in 2018, re-elected in 2020 with 89% of the vote—receiving the two highest vote totals in the city’s history—and re-elected without opposition in 2023.
City Of Boca To Commemorate

Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday, Jan. 20

The City of Boca Raton will commemorate and honor 10 a.m. March along Federal Highway from the MLK Jr. music and a Humanitarian Award presentation.
the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. with a day Memorial, 200 Ruby Street, to the Mizner Park Amphitheater, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Celebrate a unified community
of free community events and celebrations on Monday, featuring Boca Raton Community High School Band & Color with a variety of live performances, amusement rides,
Jan. 20. Guard. Trolley service is available for those requiring assistance. games, community partner booths, a photo booth, stage
Activities throughout the day will include: 10:30 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. Join community leaders and local performances, food and beverages available for purchase, a
8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Free Community Breakfast, themed organizations for a ceremony to honor the life and legacy of service project and more, at the Mizner Park Amphitheater.
“Don’t Give Up On the Dream,” courtesy of Developing Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Mizner Park Amphitheater. For more information, call (561) 367-7073, visit www.
Interracial Social Change (DISC) at Ebenezer Baptist Church Features include keynote speaker Dr. Alisha Winn, a Mayoral myboca.us/communityevents and follow Boca Raton
Hall, 200 Ruby Street. proclamation, speeches from community leaders, poetry, Recreation Services on Facebook.

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