Charles Deering Estate
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Charles Deering Estate
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The Richmond Cottage as it looks today.
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| Location | Palmetto Bay, Florida, USA |
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| Coordinates | 25°36′56.217″N 80°18′23.3388″W / 25.61561583°N 80.306483000°WCoordinates: 25°36′56.217″N 80°18′23.3388″W / 25.61561583°N 80.306483000°W |
| NRHP Reference # | 86000325 |
| Added to NRHP | March 11, 1986 |
Charles Deering Estate (also known as Deering Estate at Cutler) was the Florida home of Charles Deering until 1927 when he died at the estate.
Deering lived on the 444 acres (1.80 km2) property for five years, from 1922 to 1927. The property consists of a three story wooden house built in 1900, known as the Richmond Cottage, and a three story stone mansion. Other buildings were also built on the property to serve as auxiliary buildings to the estate. Charles Deering Estate is located in the Cutler neighborhood of Palmetto Bay, Florida.
The grounds include what is thought to be the largest virgin coastal tropical hardwood hammock in the continental United States. The estate was acquired by the state of Florida in 1985.
The house and grounds were featured several times in the 1980s TV series Miami Vice and it was the starting line for The Amazing Race All-Stars in 2007.
In 1900 the wooden house was built and soon after S.H. Richmond's wife, Edith, opened the house as an Inn called the Richmond Cottage. Guests who stayed at the Richmond Cottage, according to the 1900 register of the Inn, include Henry Morrison Flagler and James Ingrahm. The Richmond Cottage was named the most southern hostelry in the continental United States by The Miami Metropolis in 1901. The 1904 City Directory describes Cutler as, "A few houses, with two good stores, those of Tweedell Brothers, and Brown and Moody, each of whom has built up a thriving business with the surrounding country. Cutler has daily mail and three wharves from which boats take freight and passengers to and from Miami. There is one good hotel, the Richmond Cottage which overlooks the bay."
Charles Deering bought the Richmond Cottage in 1916 and moved to Cutler in 1922.
Charles Deering was born on July 31, 1852 in Paris, Maine. He was the son of William Deering, founder of Deering Harvester Company, and brother of millionaire industrialist James Deering. Deering is remembered as an American businessman and philanthropist.
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