James Deering
Businessperson, Organization founder
1859 – 1925
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Who was James Deering?
James Deering was an industrialist executive in the family Deering Harvester Company and subsequent International Harvester, a socialite, and an antiquities collector. He is known for his landmark Vizcaya estate, where he was an early 20th-century resident on Biscayne Bay in the present day Coconut Grove district of Miami, Florida. Begun in 1910, with architecture and gardens in a Mediterranean Revival style, Vizcaya was his passionate endeavor with artist Paul Chalfin, and his winter home from 1916 to his death in 1925.
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- Born
- Nov 12, 1859
South Paris - Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Northwestern University
- Lived in
- Maine
- Died
- Sep 21, 1925
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on July 23, 2013
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