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Bruce Williams:
Vizcaya is very dedicated to preserving the cultural and environmental resources here to be able connect visitors with the past,
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the present and the future. All of these objects, they all have unique stories, and together, these stories form sort of a larger, bigger narrative.
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That help us understand James Deering and how he built this great estate. Unlike many of James Deering’s gilded age contemporaries,
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he was a very private man, which was in direct contrast to the building of Vizcaya, which turned into a huge public affair.
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but you’ve had this, this large workforce. And how do we know this? We know this because the project managers kept
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and documented all this. And we had that in our archives here at Vizcaya. And you can see when you look at the archives
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That James Deering was actually very involved in all the processes of the construction of Vizcaya from the macro, the larger parts of the project,
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All the way down to the very, very minuscule parts of the project as well.
