Boca Raton Resort & Club
| Boca Raton Resort & Club | |
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Boca Raton Resort March 2014
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| General information | |
| Location |
Boca Raton, Florida USA |
| Coordinates | 26°20′29″N 80°04′39″W / 26.341403°N 80.077562°WCoordinates: 26°20′29″N 80°04′39″W / 26.341403°N 80.077562°W |
| Opening | February 6, 1926 |
| Owner | The Blackstone Group |
| Management | Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Addison Mizner (original) Schultze and Weaver (1930s expansion) Donaldson Group Architects (1969 tower) |
| Developer | Mizner Development Corp. and Ritz-Carlton |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 1,038 |
| Number of restaurants | 13 |
| Parking | Valet parking only |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
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 intended to have been the second of two hotels, with the other 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 then smaller 100 room inn on the west side of Lake Boca Raton. 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, immediately outside of the city limits.
Currently, the club is part of Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts by the Hilton Hotels Corporation, an affiliate of the Blackstone Group. Before the Spring of 2009, LXR Luxury Resorts operated the resort.
When the real estate bubble's following economic depression ended, Philadelphia utility millionaire Clarence H. Geist purchased the inn via an auction in 1927, and expanded it into the Boca Raton Club. Architectural firm, Schultze and Weaver had doubled the inn's size, and a cabana club was constructed where Addison on the Ocean condominiums now stands.
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