While many South Florida cities came to be via resourceful real estate developers, Boca Raton had the extra fortune of being founded by architect Addison Mizner. Mizner had established a reputation with New York society and carried it to Palm Beach before setting his eyes on unincorporated farmland to the south that would grow today’s beloved city. Though Mizner’s complete vision was left unrealized, his aesthetic mindset has shaped Boca ever since with a preponderance of timeless Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. Nearly a hundred years later, Boca is more brochure-worthy than Mizner could have imagined. Today, Boca Raton is a vibrant community obsessed with golf and tennis, Intracoastal Waterway boating, and its two-mile stretch of world-class white sand beaches. The unobstructed sunset views don’t hurt, either.