The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present day Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida.

When was Vizcaya Miami built?

The villa was built primarily between 1914 and 1922, at a cost of $15 million. Deering used Vizcaya as his winter residence from 1916 until his death in 1925. While the construction of the extensive elaborate Italian Renaissance gardens and the village continued into 1923.

How much did it cost to build Vizcaya?

The Vizcaya mansion, which sits juxtaposed between the sea and tropical mangrove forest, was breathtaking. Estimated to have cost $26 million to build between 1914 and 1922, Vizcaya is worth $388 million-$8.7 billion today.