Good job y'all! Lived in Miami when I was a very young man (raised in the deep Ozarks) and was terrified and lost in a city so big- literally on my days off I rode the metrorail to Vizcaya and sat in the gardens- it was my safe place when I was a lost little hillbilly 🐰 thank y'all
Thank you for this intriguing tour. I love being an armchair traveler with you two. You did a wonderful job showing us a glimpse of what great wealth could buy 100+ years ago. Some parts were truly beautiful and other parts were dark and sad and depressing. Kudos to Miami Dade County and Miami 21 for their preservation efforts on behalf of the estate. I love all the tours you do. Even though I didn’t fall in love with this one, it was very interesting to see. Thank you!🌸
I love the flow of the video. It's smooth and easy to watch, as well as the most relaxing video music ever! Great shots of the beautiful interior and marble floors etc.
This is the type of place where you wake up in the morning put on your silk robe, pour a glass of champagne , and just walk around in awww that you created such a masterpiece lol
@@nickmarruffo5851 the concept and idea for such a place came from the mind of Mr Deering, the $15 million that paid for this masterpiece came from Mr Deering.. without both we wouldn't be splitting hairs !! the builders may have built it But Mr Deering Created it, long before builders were involved... sometimes all it takes is an idea
Excellent video. The camera tour flowed well. Vizcaya is beautiful and filled with amazing treasures, but parts did look dark and depressing. It looks like it was always a museum and never really a home. It was amazing to see; thank you for taking us on such a well narrated tour.
P.S. People are suggesting you do tours of places in New England and California, and perhaps they didn't hear when you said you drove 10 hours to film last weeks video in Macon, Georgia. I greatly appreciate the efforts you go to to provide your Community with interesting and beautiful properties to view, which we would otherwise never see. One place I think you and the viewers might enjoy that's not too far away is Swann House, at the Atlanta History Center. While it was built in the 1920s, it's modeled after an Italian Renaissance Villa.
I went to Barry University in the early '70s and visited a number of times, before they installed air conditioning I'm very glad that there is continuing. work. For the details, it really does rival San Simeon. Another good place to visit is Ca d'Zan at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota. Not quite as impressive but still a neat and interesting place to see. I love Restoration Nation; learning so much!
I love this property and greatly appreciate your video tour! Thank you for sharing it with everyone. I have been an annual passholder and frequent guest at the Biltmore Estate for several years and can genuinely appreciate the hard work and attention to detail required to keep these beautiful places safe and presentable today. 💖
Laine and Kevin, I have often wondered about you doing a tour of the Winchester house. I was blown away by her creativity and was sickened to learn of how many trucks and antiques were shipped out, sold for a song and a dance to dealers without one shred of an inventory list. Would love to see you in California. You could have a ball with some of the northern mansions built by lumber and railroad barons. Love your tours and quality videos.
Great job on showing Vizcaya. We live in Miami -Dade and are members at Vizcaya and try to visit as we can. It is such a peaceful place to just walk around the gardens and the staff keeps the place up so well. It is certainly a hidden beauty in our city. Would have enjoyed running into you guys there.
Vizcaya is one of my most favorite places on the planet. Having grown up near Fort Lauderdale, I saw it the first time with my high school Art History class. I have been there several times since--including after Hurricane Andrew when the gardens were mostly destroyed. So fantastic to see them looking so lush and great again.
Beautiful tour visit. Unfortunately another place I shall never see in person but super to visit through the wonder of the internet and yourselves. Thank you both, as always, Superb!
Some suggestions for future videos; Hearst Castle in California, the Vanderbilt Mansion in North Carolina, and the mansions along the coast of Rhode Island. You are an outstanding narrator. Thanks for the tour.
Absolutely gorgeous!! Thank you for doing these tours. There are those of us like myself who may never have the chance to see the places in person...so thank you!!
I remember going here with my mom a good 50 years ago. You couldn't view many rooms at the time as they were closed off and the rooms we were allowed to view had to follow a "tour". I also remember the rooms we were allowed to see had silk wallpaper. That may have been destroyed when Hurricane Andrew hit the area in 1992. I also remember you were free to roam the gardens. I am surprised that much looks like it could use a good pressure cleaning.
It looks exactly the same as 1982 when I was there. Florida coral limestone erodes & looks old while conditions grow a lot of moss and lichens. You'd be endlessly pressure washing all the pavers, walls, and sculptures & just eroding it more.
Love Love Love the tour such a beautiful place would love to go back in time and see how it was lived in ... as much as I love the tours can't wait till you get back to the remodel of your house .
Vizcaya is magnificent and amazing! Thank you so much for refreshing my memory of this beautiful extravagant place, a true American treasure. You did a wonderful job of showing us its beauty and explaining the many details.
It is so gratifying to see you both in your efforts to keep and restore our nation’s architectural history. As a child artist, raised along the SoCal beaches, I was introduced to art and architecture via my visits to Northern California and Hurst Castle in San Simeon. Every subsequent visit helped me appreciate the beauty of the history and conservation of the jewel of the West Coast. Every child should be introduced to history through art, sculpture architecture and theatre. And be taught the value of preservation. In this video of Vizcaya, a truly magnificent property, I am saddened to see many areas within the villa that seem to be lacking restoration efforts; paint on doors, damage to stairs etc., the lack of guided tours, where in an effort to keep people away from precious artifacts plexiglass and other apparatuses; cameras and permanent railings have been built installed. Those barriers not only take away from the experience, they cheapen the experience as well. Guided tours are so much more informative and make the experience feel personal. Even in a restricted pandemic guided tours (and recently I’ve been on a few) when done right for health and safety are wonderful as well as work best for restoration and preservation. I really hope that Miami will be able to keep this wonderful property up for many future generations. Thank you so much for all your information and research. I love love love what you are doing.
The people who had this built with a telephone installed would be amazed that just a hundred years later we can call someone anywhere in the world from a little device that fits in a pocket. Thank you for the tour Laine and Kevin.
Thank you for touring this magnificent mansion! I had not heard much about it, being much more familiar with Whitehall, which I hope you tour soon. Now I know a lot more about this fascinating and beautiful house!
I have visited many times. I took my granddaughter on her 18th birthday. I hope she will have fond memories of time spend at this beautiful place with her Mema.
The word ornate was created for this place. The central courtyard reminds me so much of the buildings here in Balboa Park, San Diego, which were built in 1915 as part of the Panama-California Exposition (celebrating the Panama Canal). The Spanish Colonial buildings were intended to be temporary, and included what are now the California Tower, Casa del Prado, House of Hospitality, and others. By 1922, they had fallen into disrepair and were threatened with demolition, but philanthropist George Marston had this to say: "You may prove what you will in facts and figures about the shaky old buildings; the only answer is “They shall not pass.” Somehow, without knowing how to explain it, we are instinctively, subconsciously, incurably in love with them and will not give them up. It’s the grand emotion and is founded, I think, on something real and vital." Permanent (restored/reconstructed) versions of the buildings house some of California's best museums here on the West coast. Vizcaya is their kin, and a gem indeed. Come what may, you have documented its wonders for all to see. Kudos, Laine and Kevin.
Ah, Balboa Park an absolute favorite of mine. I see the architectural similarities as well. It must have been quite the movement of connecting Spanish with the Baroque European elements. I see it also in Paramount Studios entrance. A lovely tour to be sure.
In 93 i was in fashion school. ( International Fine Arts College ). I was blessed to be a dresser at a multi designer fashion show. That building brought me to tears.
What a lovely estate - love all the orchids! Seeing all the stone features is truly like the Hearst Castle at San Simeon. Architect Julia Morgan gathered antique stone features from all over to use at San Simeon, and what wasn’t to Hearst’s liking was used in Morgan’s design of Chapel of the Chimes, a columbarium & mausoleum in Oakland, CA. Thanks for the tour 👏👏👏
Omg I would so love a night in there, as is! This entire style of decor should come back in style completely. It’s so classy, comfortable and refreshing after all this time! I loved this! Thanks you guys 🥂
This house was in the movie "The Money Pit (1986)" with Tom Hanks right before the end credits. In the movie, the real estate scammers that sell Tom Hanks his house sell this one to his father.
I loved visiting this beautiful place. Back in the 90’s but the mosquitoes were soooo bad my friend and I and everyone else couldn’t hardly stand it!!!
It would be amazing if these places turned a few rooms into places you could stay. Would be an amazing fundraiser for future restoration and preservation projects.
Hard to imagine this was one person's personal home. Ppl went crazy back in the day with huge castles and mansions ..opposed to today with micro houses and minimalism ..Best place I ever visited was the Ringling Brothers house in Sarasota ..similar to this , but this is way more .
Monday morning musings, by Kristina..... *When Val did the spin in the gazebo, I heard Laine say 'hurl!!' as she was editing the video LOL *How, when people are working with primitive tools, do they build cement structures IN the water?? Amazing!! *And, don't hate me....a lifetime as a librarian, a birthday of April 14 and a place of residence of Halifax, Nova Scotia (site to many, many Titanic victim burials) COMPELS me to let you know that an estimated 700+ out of 2000+ passengers actually survived the sinking. Yay! Good news! Much love to you two crazy kids!!
I’m aware that 700 survived the sinking. They weren’t on board. When I said all souls “on board” I was (I thought obviously 🤷🏻♀️) excluding those who were no longer on board, meaning, in life boats- guess I should have been much more specific
(Rings for staff) Yes sir? Hey I'm turning in for the night, I just love this four-poster bed with the mosquito netting. Mosquito netting? That's what I call it cuz you know it's Florida the birds, the bees, the mosquitoes. Could you do me a favor? Shoot! Oh no no never say shoot to a millionaire. But sir you're a b..Ot ot no b - all the killers will come from me. Just let them think I'm a poor millionaire. You needed something? Yes could you feed the goldfish? Goldfish? Yeah yeah there's supposed to be goldfish in the garden water fountain but everybody wants to take home a souvenir so they may or may not be there. Yeah sorta like serial killers have trophies-that's a joke sir. God now I'm gonna have nightmares. Would you like some tea sir? No no just make me wet the bed, you and the rest of the staff have a little tea party in the kitchen you know with the antique cabinets in the butler's pantry and antique ice box gorgeous aren't they? Thank you sir, good night. NIght night! 😁
O. M. G.! This is the best one you've shown! The combination of Renaissance and Tuscan and French influences is everything I love. I'm just squeaking! Why is now, we have to live in boxes? Why is this a thing? Why can't we appreciate other cultures contributions? Let them influence us? J/s
Fairchild Botanical Gardens is worth seeing near Miami. Read Wikipedia about who he was please. His house is nearby he shared with wife Marian “Daisy” Bell Fairchild. Famous father-in-law!. The house has education, curated by Hawaii for some plants. Art visits their gardens. In tours, and they have an orchid project. Books are written about them and him especially. He was a scientist. He is my cousin, or was while alive.
Wow! What an opulent mansion ! I could see the importance of having such a mansion in the time, but today I think it would be to outrageous to own ~ unless your a billionaire or own trillions !! … Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to show us! Ps. Im going to order the cereals! 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✨💖✨
I think about farmers struggling, at that time, to buy new equipment from International Harvester. He could have had his company lower costs for equipment by taken less of a profit. It appears his profit was high. Beautiful mansion, enjoyed seeing it!
Try to remember this was at a time before the federal income tax. That made a HUGE difference in the amount of money anyone kept, but it also meant workers could be paid AND profits could be high
How do they ever protect all of that outdoor art work when a hurricane comes along? While marble is heavy, the winds can be excessive during one of those storms.
Wow! Definitely ancient architecture acquired or 'inherited' by our favorite 'Robber' Baron industrialists...I would think that it would be hard getting horse and buggy to bring those materials on site...as well as find skilled laborers. Time to question the narrative. Please keep highlighting these beauties
Absolutely gorgeous, but for being only over a hundred years old it's in a really poor state. At first I thought it was abandoned, but then people appeared.
I agree. Someone needs to take a power washer to all the stone and brick. All the mold is not attractive at all. A lot of the fountains weren’t working and the inside was dirty. They need some major funding to get it back to what it once was.
@@Millianeyes well in 2017 I visited and it did not have all this mold and didn’t look so bad. But maybe because it’s by the water has a lot to do with mold and bacteria on the statues. But the garden is very lovely. Maybe they just need a groundskeeper to maintain all the statues and get rid of the mold and bacteria. It’s still a lovely home and worth a visit.😉🕌
Laine I love your program. You might be interested in a bit of history I found in Smithsonian magazine Jan. Feb. 2022. Your Cherokee and Choctaw heritage is honored on page 42. Peace trees. I was inspired by this article. Hopefully you will enjoy it also.
Another beautiful property. How lucky you are to be able to go see as many of them as you do. A suggestion, pan less and take steady shots of the best objects in a space so we can properly absorb their beauty. There is no way that you can show the entirety of any property like this in 30 minutes. You would be better off showing the highlights to their best than trying to pan through everything.
I probably said islets….. I only get one shot at these and they are cold reads, so there’s often no telling what word I read as compared to what comes out of my mouth 🤣
Your coverage of this is amazing⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s understandable that it takes a lot of money to keep up the property, but I’m really wondering how it’s being managed. There is crud floating in fountains that are not running, the grotto pool is dirty and does not look like anything has been done to it, in the least they could keep things clean, the lawn‘s not mowed, the bushes not recently trimmed, dirt and mold growing everywhere, etc. If they had 50 million which was matched for a total of 100 million to restore it, Plus you know they are getting tax dollars annually for its upkeep, What they charge at the door to tour it, they could be doing better than this…very sad.
What a beautiful estate this must have been when it was completed. Sadly, although still impressive, it looks a bit run down. I was in shock to see so much deterioration of the concrete and stone surrounding the home. The poor house looked like it has not been cleaned and or restored in a VERY long time. :( STILL, thank you for sharing such a gem of historic beauty!!
“A brief history of Vizcaya Museum & Gardens Businessman and socialite James Deering (1859-1925) built his fortune from his family’s agricultural machinery business. He was also an avid collector of antiques. He built his dream winter villa from 1914 and through the Roaring Twenties, costing him an estimated $26 million at that time. Today, the property is worth an estimated $9 billion.” www.hotels.com/go/usa/vizcaya-museum-gardens-miami
Re: @25:40 The Titanic did not sink with "all souls on board". In fact, 706 people survived the sinking of the Titanic. (The "unsinkable" Molly Brown, for instance.)
Isn’t it funny when people watch a WHOOLLLEEE VIDEO just to pick the one thing that they think can make them look like the smartest person in the room??? In fact, it does quite the opposite. OBVIOUSLY we know there were survivors- we assume our viewers are smart enough to interpret subtext. Perhaps we should stop making that assumption ….
Oh the arrogance of those who consume but never create. All souls ON BOARD did die, so that is actually true, not just effectively. I’m sure the viewers of this video would have loved it should I have rambled off on a 30 minute tangent of who lived and died on the Titanic, which has absolutely nothing to do with the correlation of the ships sinking to this video. When you produce your own videos you may rant endlessly on any topic you see fit. Here, we shall do it our way…correctly.
Laine JUST (Feb 10) got cleared from her surgery to lift heavy things again. We will probably head to Natchez to finish Pearl and sell her, then head back and finish Melly!
@@OurRestorationNation Sorry to hear Laine had to have surgery. I'm looking forward to seeing all the work being done on both Pearl and Melly. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
I feel it's such a lost to built such huge house. The maintenance is too expensive for something that doesn't generate income. It'll be more profittable to build something like hotel, convention center, or anything that's intended for business purposes.
Gosh, it breaks my heart to see this place....it looks abandoned....With the amount of tours that the home pulls in you would think the restoration management group would restore some of the deterioration.....I'm a little shocked...
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Good job y'all! Lived in Miami when I was a very young man (raised in the deep Ozarks) and was terrified and lost in a city so big- literally on my days off I rode the metrorail to Vizcaya and sat in the gardens- it was my safe place when I was a lost little hillbilly 🐰 thank y'all
Also from the Missouri...Vizcaya is a gem 😍
Thank you for this intriguing tour. I love being an armchair traveler with you two. You did a wonderful job showing us a glimpse of what great wealth could buy 100+ years ago. Some parts were truly beautiful and other parts were dark and sad and depressing. Kudos to Miami Dade County and Miami 21 for their preservation efforts on behalf of the estate. I love all the tours you do. Even though I didn’t fall in love with this one, it was very interesting to see. Thank you!🌸
Hello Deborah
I love the flow of the video. It's smooth and easy to watch, as well as the most relaxing video music ever! Great shots of the beautiful interior and marble floors etc.
You just don't see level of detail anymore. I find it very tranquil the way everything just flows together seamlessly. Beautifully filmed ❤❤❤
This is the type of place where you wake up in the morning put on your silk robe, pour a glass of champagne , and just walk around in awww that you created such a masterpiece lol
You mean that you paid for people to make you such a masterpiece
@@nickmarruffo5851 the concept and idea for such a place came from the mind of Mr Deering, the $15 million that paid for this masterpiece came from Mr Deering.. without both we wouldn't be splitting hairs !! the builders may have built it But Mr Deering Created it, long before builders were involved... sometimes all it takes is an idea
I'm pretty sure someone would be pouring that champagne for ya
@@JulieDeuxFois my boyfriend, and believe me when I tell you He ows me 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣
@Jason Blueblah even better, a ghost that serves lol
Excellent video. The camera tour flowed well. Vizcaya is beautiful and filled with amazing treasures, but parts did look dark and depressing. It looks like it was always a museum and never really a home. It was amazing to see; thank you for taking us on such a well narrated tour.
The wealth back in those days, unbelievable. I am glad all can enjoy now!😍😍😍
Wow, fantastic gardens!
Beautiful. I'm very happy it's been preserved. Thank you for the tour. Great job!
P.S. People are suggesting you do tours of places in New England and California, and perhaps they didn't hear when you said you drove 10 hours to film last weeks video in Macon, Georgia. I greatly appreciate the efforts you go to to provide your Community with interesting and beautiful properties to view, which we would otherwise never see. One place I think you and the viewers might enjoy that's not too far away is Swann House, at the Atlanta History Center. While it was built in the 1920s, it's modeled after an Italian Renaissance Villa.
I went to Barry University in the early '70s and visited a number of times, before they installed air conditioning
I'm very glad that there is continuing. work. For the details, it really does rival San Simeon. Another good place to visit is Ca d'Zan at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota. Not quite as impressive but still a neat and interesting place to see. I love Restoration Nation; learning so much!
Lovely! Wow! I almost forgot that there are other people in the world I’m so used to watching your videos with no people in the homes, 😉😂😆😂
LOL! Me too.
Love Vizcaya! It’s been years since I last got to visit so thank you so much for this tour!
I love this property and greatly appreciate your video tour! Thank you for sharing it with everyone. I have been an annual passholder and frequent guest at the Biltmore Estate for several years and can genuinely appreciate the hard work and attention to detail required to keep these beautiful places safe and presentable today. 💖
Laine and Kevin, I have often wondered about you doing a tour of the Winchester house. I was blown away by her creativity and was sickened to learn of how many trucks and antiques were shipped out, sold for a song and a dance to dealers without one shred of an inventory list.
Would love to see you in California. You could have a ball with some of the northern mansions built by lumber and railroad barons. Love your tours and quality videos.
Like another whole different world! Enchanting 😊
Hard to believe this was someone’s home, not a resort. The gardens are massive. Thanks, putting it on my list of must sees.
Amazing property. Truly a preservation of priceless artifacts.
Great job on showing Vizcaya. We live in Miami -Dade and are members at Vizcaya and try to visit as we can. It is such a peaceful place to just walk around the gardens and the staff keeps the place up so well. It is certainly a hidden beauty in our city. Would have enjoyed running into you guys there.
Vizcaya is one of my most favorite places on the planet. Having grown up near Fort Lauderdale, I saw it the first time with my high school Art History class. I have been there several times since--including after Hurricane Andrew when the gardens were mostly destroyed. So fantastic to see them looking so lush and great again.
Beautiful tour visit. Unfortunately another place I shall never see in person but super to visit through the wonder of the internet and yourselves. Thank you both, as always, Superb!
Wow !!! Thank you for sharing! Hope you are recovering for surgery .
Some suggestions for future videos; Hearst Castle in California, the Vanderbilt Mansion in North Carolina, and the mansions along the coast of Rhode Island. You are an outstanding narrator. Thanks for the tour.
I was gonna suggest the same thing!
Absolutely gorgeous!! Thank you for doing these tours. There are those of us like myself who may never have the chance to see the places in person...so thank you!!
I remember going here with my mom a good 50 years ago. You couldn't view many rooms at the time as they were closed off and the rooms we were allowed to view had to follow a "tour". I also remember the rooms we were allowed to see had silk wallpaper. That may have been destroyed when Hurricane Andrew hit the area in 1992. I also remember you were free to roam the gardens. I am surprised that much looks like it could use a good pressure cleaning.
Hello Vickie
It looks exactly the same as 1982 when I was there.
Florida coral limestone erodes & looks old while conditions grow a lot of moss and lichens.
You'd be endlessly pressure washing all the pavers, walls, and sculptures & just eroding it more.
Love Love Love the tour such a beautiful place would love to go back in time and see how it was lived in ... as much as I love the tours can't wait till you get back to the remodel of your house .
Vizcaya is magnificent and amazing! Thank you so much for refreshing my memory of this beautiful extravagant place, a true American treasure. You did a wonderful job of showing us its beauty and explaining the many details.
Been watching you guys for a few months...happy to see you're in my city! Vizcaya is so beautiful.
We LOVE Miami!
It is so gratifying to see you both in your efforts to keep and restore our nation’s architectural history.
As a child artist, raised along the SoCal beaches, I was introduced to art and architecture via my visits to Northern California and Hurst Castle in San Simeon. Every subsequent visit helped me appreciate the beauty of the history and conservation of the jewel of the West Coast. Every child should be introduced to history through art, sculpture architecture and theatre. And be taught the value of preservation.
In this video of Vizcaya, a truly magnificent property, I am saddened to see many areas within the villa that seem to be lacking restoration efforts; paint on doors, damage to stairs etc., the lack of guided tours, where in an effort to keep people away from precious artifacts plexiglass and other apparatuses; cameras and permanent railings have been built installed. Those barriers not only take away from the experience, they cheapen the experience as well. Guided tours are so much more informative and make the experience feel personal. Even in a restricted pandemic guided tours (and recently I’ve been on a few) when done right for health and safety are wonderful as well as work best for restoration and preservation. I really hope that Miami will be able to keep this wonderful property up for many future generations.
Thank you so much for all your information and research. I love love love what you are doing.
Thank you so much!!!
The people who had this built with a telephone installed would be amazed that just a hundred years later we can call someone anywhere in the world from a little device that fits in a pocket. Thank you for the tour Laine and Kevin.
Thank you for touring this magnificent mansion! I had not heard much about it, being much more familiar with Whitehall, which I hope you tour soon. Now I know a lot more about this fascinating and beautiful house!
There’s too many beautiful things to look at. It’s overwhelming. I need to plan a trip to Miami before this is lost forever.
I have visited many times. I took my granddaughter on her 18th birthday. I hope she will have fond memories of time spend at this beautiful place with her Mema.
We used to visit here and the Venetian Pool all the time when I was a kid. It's what sparked my interest in old architecture!
The word ornate was created for this place. The central courtyard reminds me so much of the buildings here in Balboa Park, San Diego, which were built in 1915 as part of the Panama-California Exposition (celebrating the Panama Canal). The Spanish Colonial buildings were intended to be temporary, and included what are now the California Tower, Casa del Prado, House of Hospitality, and others. By 1922, they had fallen into disrepair and were threatened with demolition, but philanthropist George Marston had this to say: "You may prove what you will in facts and figures about the shaky old buildings; the only answer is “They shall not pass.” Somehow, without knowing how to explain it, we are instinctively, subconsciously, incurably in love with them and will not give them up. It’s the grand emotion and is founded, I think, on something real and vital." Permanent (restored/reconstructed) versions of the buildings house some of California's best museums here on the West coast. Vizcaya is their kin, and a gem indeed. Come what may, you have documented its wonders for all to see. Kudos, Laine and Kevin.
Thank you so much. Maybe someday we can make it to California.
Ah, Balboa Park an absolute favorite of mine. I see the architectural similarities as well. It must have been quite the movement of connecting Spanish with the Baroque European elements. I see it also in Paramount Studios entrance. A lovely tour to be sure.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful estate with us. It is amazing.
Reminds me of William Randolph Hearst Castle in San Simeon CA where my sister & I got to see it. I see they made this Castle into a beautiful museum!
That home was pretty, but I actually prefer your gorgeous homes in AR! 😊
(We do too- shhhh, don’t tell the billionaires 🤣)
@@OurRestorationNation 😂😂
In 93 i was in fashion school. ( International Fine Arts College ). I was blessed to be a dresser at a multi designer fashion show. That building brought me to tears.
This had me at the driveway and that courtyard ❤❤❤
What a lovely estate - love all the orchids! Seeing all the stone features is truly like the Hearst Castle at San Simeon. Architect Julia Morgan gathered antique stone features from all over to use at San Simeon, and what wasn’t to Hearst’s liking was used in Morgan’s design of Chapel of the Chimes, a columbarium & mausoleum in Oakland, CA. Thanks for the tour 👏👏👏
Hello Jennifer
I visited there a couple of years ago! Magnificent! Gorgeous orchid gardens!
Absolutely gorgeous, who would know all these beautiful places exist, Thank you for taking us in atour.
Omg I would so love a night in there, as is! This entire style of decor should come back in style completely. It’s so classy, comfortable and refreshing after all this time! I loved this! Thanks you guys 🥂
Thank you it was great to see
Absolutely incredible!!!
This house was in the movie "The Money Pit (1986)" with Tom Hanks right before the end credits. In the movie, the real estate scammers that sell Tom Hanks his house sell this one to his father.
I was hoping I wasn't the only one who caught that.
I loved visiting this beautiful place. Back in the 90’s but the mosquitoes were soooo bad my friend and I and everyone else couldn’t hardly stand it!!!
It would be amazing if these places turned a few rooms into places you could stay. Would be an amazing fundraiser for future restoration and preservation projects.
Incredible!!! Adding to my bucket list!
Hello Linda
Beautiful building and gardens, I hope you are doing ok Laine xxx
at least this historical old building is preserved not destroyed🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 the atmosphere of this house reminds me of an antique and grande vampire house
WOW!
I remember going here as a child. I also remember that ace Ventura was filmed here.
Hard to imagine this was one person's personal home. Ppl went crazy back in the day with huge castles and mansions ..opposed to today with micro houses and minimalism ..Best place I ever visited was the Ringling Brothers house in Sarasota ..similar to this , but this is way more .
I can't believe this is right in my backyard and i had no idea!
Great video! Thank you for posting this..Looking at their website it shows how close they are to the water and the high rises..
This whole thing is giving Tirta Ganga vibes tbh, and Balinese music.
Wasn’t this the house in the end of the movie “The Money pit”?
Monday morning musings, by Kristina.....
*When Val did the spin in the gazebo, I heard Laine say 'hurl!!' as she was editing the video LOL
*How, when people are working with primitive tools, do they build cement structures IN the water?? Amazing!!
*And, don't hate me....a lifetime as a librarian, a birthday of April 14 and a place of residence of Halifax, Nova Scotia (site to many, many Titanic victim burials) COMPELS me to let you know that an estimated 700+ out of 2000+ passengers actually survived the sinking. Yay! Good news!
Much love to you two crazy kids!!
I’m aware that 700 survived the sinking. They weren’t on board. When I said all souls “on board” I was (I thought obviously 🤷🏻♀️) excluding those who were no longer on board, meaning, in life boats- guess I should have been much more specific
@@OurRestorationNation hundreds died in the water waiting for rescue. I meant no offense.
Anytime all you guys want to get out of my house and go home would be fine with me - I'm sorry it's been a long day and I'm tired.😁
(Rings for staff) Yes sir? Hey I'm turning in for the night, I just love this four-poster bed with the mosquito netting. Mosquito netting? That's what I call it cuz you know it's Florida the birds, the bees, the mosquitoes. Could you do me a favor? Shoot! Oh no no never say shoot to a millionaire. But sir you're a b..Ot ot no b - all the killers will come from me. Just let them think I'm a poor millionaire. You needed something? Yes could you feed the goldfish? Goldfish? Yeah yeah there's supposed to be goldfish in the garden water fountain but everybody wants to take home a souvenir so they may or may not be there. Yeah sorta like serial killers have trophies-that's a joke sir. God now I'm gonna have nightmares. Would you like some tea sir? No no just make me wet the bed, you and the rest of the staff have a little tea party in the kitchen you know with the antique cabinets in the butler's pantry and antique ice box gorgeous aren't they? Thank you sir, good night. NIght night! 😁
Castles USA did a pretty cool tour of this house last year.
O. M. G.! This is the best one you've shown! The combination of Renaissance and Tuscan and French influences is everything I love. I'm just squeaking! Why is now, we have to live in boxes? Why is this a thing? Why can't we appreciate other cultures contributions? Let them influence us? J/s
What happens to this place during a hurricane?
Fairchild Botanical Gardens is worth seeing near Miami. Read Wikipedia about who he was please. His house is nearby he shared with wife Marian “Daisy” Bell Fairchild. Famous father-in-law!. The house has education, curated by Hawaii for some plants. Art visits their gardens. In tours, and they have an orchid project. Books are written about them and him especially. He was a scientist. He is my cousin, or was while alive.
This home is in the very last scene of the Tom Hanks movie, The Money Pit.
I wonder what method would be used to clean all of the stone without damaging the detail? It looks like it is due for some cleanup.
It just seems like parts are so much older than 1916
Wow! What an opulent mansion ! I could see the importance of having such a mansion in the time, but today I think it would be to outrageous to own ~ unless your a billionaire or own trillions !! … Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to show us! Ps. Im going to order the cereals! 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✨💖✨
I think about farmers struggling, at that time, to buy new equipment from International Harvester. He could have had his company lower costs for equipment by taken less of a profit. It appears his profit was high.
Beautiful mansion, enjoyed seeing it!
Try to remember this was at a time before the federal income tax. That made a HUGE difference in the amount of money anyone kept, but it also meant workers could be paid AND profits could be high
If the original owner died in 1925, he did not enjoy his masterpiece very long. How tragic. Hopefully someone in the family did .......
We saw an alligator there! Thought it was a statue, turns out it was real lol
At first I thought this was the Ringling Mansion in Sarasota?
How do they ever protect all of that outdoor art work when a hurricane comes along? While marble is heavy, the winds can be excessive during one of those storms.
Wow
Wow! Definitely ancient architecture acquired or 'inherited' by our favorite 'Robber' Baron industrialists...I would think that it would be hard getting horse and buggy to bring those materials on site...as well as find skilled laborers. Time to question the narrative. Please keep highlighting these beauties
PS so glad they didn't burn down or destroy this one like they had so many others. So Sad
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I have never heard it referred to as the Hearst Castle of the east, only Vizcaya.
Funny, I never think about something so opulent being built anytime after the Victorian era.
I swear that looks just like the house in the move the money pit… at the end where his dad buys it from the same scammer
It is that house.
Absolutely gorgeous, but for being only over a hundred years old it's in a really poor state. At first I thought it was abandoned, but then people appeared.
I agree. Someone needs to take a power washer to all the stone and brick. All the mold is not attractive at all. A lot of the fountains weren’t working and the inside was dirty. They need some major funding to get it back to what it once was.
@@Millianeyes well in 2017 I visited and it did not have all this mold and didn’t look so bad. But maybe because it’s by the water has a lot to do with mold and bacteria on the statues. But the garden is very lovely. Maybe they just need a groundskeeper to maintain all the statues and get rid of the mold and bacteria. It’s still a lovely home and worth a visit.😉🕌
Can you imagine the amount of time and money it would take to keep a place like this up in such a hot and humid climate?
Laine I love your program. You might be interested in a bit of history I found in Smithsonian magazine Jan. Feb. 2022. Your Cherokee and Choctaw heritage is honored on page 42. Peace trees. I was inspired by this article. Hopefully you will enjoy it also.
Thank you so much Sue!!!!❤️❤️❤️
Was this house used at the end of the movie "Money Pit"?
“Vizcaya,” Italian for “The Great Gatsby”
Another beautiful property. How lucky you are to be able to go see as many of them as you do. A suggestion, pan less and take steady shots of the best objects in a space so we can properly absorb their beauty. There is no way that you can show the entirety of any property like this in 30 minutes. You would be better off showing the highlights to their best than trying to pan through everything.
*whispers* (I think it’s pronounced eyelet, as in a small island.)
No. It’s inlets, as in small bodies of water that access into the mangrove jungle from the ocean which can be navigated by small boats
@@OurRestorationNation Oh! My mistake, and apologies. I thought I heard “is lets”
I probably said islets….. I only get one shot at these and they are cold reads, so there’s often no telling what word I read as compared to what comes out of my mouth 🤣
@@OurRestorationNation, I adore what you do and the passion with which you do it.
26:05 Surly you know that there were actually a few survivors from the Titanic.
Yes we know
Your coverage of this is amazing⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s understandable that it takes a lot of money to keep up the property, but I’m really wondering how it’s being managed. There is crud floating in fountains that are not running, the grotto pool is dirty and does not look like anything has been done to it, in the least they could keep things clean, the lawn‘s not mowed, the bushes not recently trimmed, dirt and mold growing everywhere, etc. If they had 50 million which was matched for a total of 100 million to restore it, Plus you know they are getting tax dollars annually for its upkeep, What they charge at the door to tour it, they could be doing better than this…very sad.
What a beautiful estate this must have been when it was completed. Sadly, although still impressive, it looks a bit run down. I was in shock to see so much deterioration of the concrete and stone surrounding the home. The poor house looked like it has not been cleaned and or restored in a VERY long time. :( STILL, thank you for sharing such a gem of historic beauty!!
9 billion.. No one in their right mind should buy it. That's crazy for a house.
It’s not for sale. That’s just what it’s valued at.
@@OurRestorationNation still a crazy price.
9 billion !!! not possible ..com..on now !!!!!😃😆
“A brief history of Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
Businessman and socialite James Deering (1859-1925) built his fortune from his family’s agricultural machinery business. He was also an avid collector of antiques. He built his dream winter villa from 1914 and through the Roaring Twenties, costing him an estimated $26 million at that time. Today, the property is worth an estimated $9 billion.”
www.hotels.com/go/usa/vizcaya-museum-gardens-miami
Re: @25:40 The Titanic did not sink with "all souls on board". In fact, 706 people survived the sinking of the Titanic. (The "unsinkable" Molly Brown, for instance.)
I think they meant all the remaining people on board. I’m pretty sure they know there were survivors. Sheesh.
Isn’t it funny when people watch a WHOOLLLEEE VIDEO just to pick the one thing that they think can make them look like the smartest person in the room??? In fact, it does quite the opposite. OBVIOUSLY we know there were survivors- we assume our viewers are smart enough to interpret subtext. Perhaps we should stop making that assumption ….
@@OurRestorationNation Saying clearly and effectively what is true will suffice.
Oh the arrogance of those who consume but never create. All souls ON BOARD did die, so that is actually true, not just effectively. I’m sure the viewers of this video would have loved it should I have rambled off on a 30 minute tangent of who lived and died on the Titanic, which has absolutely nothing to do with the correlation of the ships sinking to this video.
When you produce your own videos you may rant endlessly on any topic you see fit. Here, we shall do it our way…correctly.
@@OurRestorationNation You should probably switch to comedies, because you're quite hilarious! I haven't laughed so hard in days! Thank you!
When are you going to do more videos of Mellie?
Laine JUST (Feb 10) got cleared from her surgery to lift heavy things again.
We will probably head to Natchez to finish Pearl and sell her, then head back and finish Melly!
@@OurRestorationNation Sorry to hear Laine had to have surgery. I'm looking forward to seeing all the work being done on both Pearl and Melly. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
Why wasn’t this guy on the Titanic? Hmm. Must have been part of sinking it .
how in hell is this place worth 9B????????
It’s got acres on the main port area of Miami. Worth big bucks.
I feel it's such a lost to built such huge house. The maintenance is too expensive for something that doesn't generate income. It'll be more profittable to build something like hotel, convention center, or anything that's intended for business purposes.
For all that money you would think you could get something new
You’re in the wrong room….
Gosh, it breaks my heart to see this place....it looks abandoned....With the amount of tours that the home pulls in you would think the restoration management group would restore some of the deterioration.....I'm a little shocked...
Doar atat?
What does this make worth 9 billion ? 🤔
I believe the land it occupies on the bay in Miami would be the biggest reason.