PALM BEACH ATLAS - SHEET 13
Via Las Brisas South to Wells Road - Lake Worth to the Atlantic Ocean.
Includes Stotesbury Park and the Eva R. Stotesbury property where the 37 room Addison Mizner designed 'El Mirasol' estate was located. Built in 1920 and demolished in 1959.
El Mirasol was said to have a 40 car garage. Imagine the cars of that era that filled the garage.
Next to El Mirasol sat Los Incas on the Stephan Sanford Property
On the Henry C. Phipps lot was built Heamaw. Casa Bendita, the original one, stood on the Margarita C. Phipps property just to the North and will be covered on Sheet 12
All three estates originally went from the ocean to the lake and have been torn down. The Stotesbury and Sanford properties had already been subdivided West of County Road at the time of printing
Note the unimproved road, not labelled, between the seawall and 1935 high water mark extending beyond Wells Rd. to the property line between the Margarita C. and Henry C. Phipps' parcels. Since El Mirasol had a N. Ocean Blvd. address, I wonder if that sometime between 1920 and the time of printing that that section of North Ocean Blvd. was abandoned.
El Mirasol to Casa Bendita
El Mirasol - Los Incas - Heamaw - Casa Bendita
Starting at Wells Rd. Eva Stotesbury sold the lot that runs from the ocean to N. County Rd.with 200' of oceanfront to Herbert Pulitzer in late 1939, early 1940. She then sold the parcel comprising Stotesbury Park a couple of months later. El Mirasol sat on her property.
Today Canterbury Lane and El Mirasol streets divide the Eva R. Stotesbury property into thirds. Sanford Av. extends right thru the middle of the Sanford parcel as Via Los Incas. Kawama Ln runs along the boundary between the JS Phipps and HC Phipps parcels West of N. County Rd. and spilts the original oceanfront lot of Henry C Phipps in half East of N. County Rd. as Chateaux Dr.
1933 Aerial Shot
Robert Yarnall Richie Collection - DeGolyer Library - Southern Methodist University
Clearly recognizable is Wells Rd. running from the lake to ocean on the right hand side.
While the building in the lower right hand side is, I believe, the zoo that was located on the Stotesbury Estate. To the left of that is the Moorish Tea House.
The massive, still standing today, arch designed by Maurice Fatio at the N. County Rd. entrance to El Mirasol can be seen in the image.
Addison Mizner designed El Mirasol
Maurice Fatio designed the arch and fountain
Here's a link to Google Maps showing the arch
Street view from Google maps of the El Mirasol entrance arch
Palm Beach Atlas Sheet 13
Eva R. Stotesbury Parcel
El Mirasol
Palm Beach Atlas Sheet 13
El Mirasol - E. T. Stotesbury Estate
Designed by Addison Mizner
Image - DeGolyer Library, SMU
El Mirasol
El Mirasol garden and fountain Aerial closeup
El Mirasol was located at 348 N. Ocean Blvd.
Image - DeGolyer Library, SMU
Walton Addition Stotesbury Park
At the time of printing the Sanford & Stotesbury properties had already been subdivided West of County Rd.
Note the pencil markup on lot No.40 - Emerald Lane & Lake Way - sold for $10,000 on 4/25/46
Here's a clip from the Palm Beach Post about the subdivison of the estate creating Stotesbury Park in 1940
Three Lost
A walk from the Moorish tea house, up the fairway, to the ocean would have led you straight to El Miraasol. Crossing N. County Rd. the Fatio designed arch, still standing today, would have been viewable.
To the left of El Mirasol is Los Incas, on the Stephan Sanford property indicated by Brockway. And, to left of that on the Henry C. Phipps lot is Heamaw. All have been torn down and the properties subdivided.
Image - DeGolyer Library, SMU
Chateaux Drive
An extension of Kawama Lane, splits the Henry C. Phipps property in half.
Google map overlayed on Sheet 13
Looking NNW
From the lower left along the ocean - Heamaw, Casa Bendita and the Munn's Estate's. In the background, swampy land, a slice of the Palm Beach Country Club golf course and way out there, the early makings of Peanut Island
Image - DeGolyer Library, SMU
1920's Postcard
View from the oceanside, From the NE, either a really good example of early Photshopping or El Mirasol had another arch. Remember the address was 348 N. Ocean Blvd
The Addison Mizner designed residence was demolished 1959
Sheet 13 Overview
Palm Beach Atlas Sheet 13
George S. Brockway Civil Engineer