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Using This Virtual Experience
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Who was James Deering?

Hiring: “The Correct Person To Do The Job”

James Deering, Book Lover?

The Landscape of a Lifetime

Archives History

No Detail Too Small

Balancing Family & Legacy

TILLING TERRA FIRMA: SUSTAINABLE SOILS

What Makes The Perfect Chair?

Business Relationships: Trust But Verify

Garden Variety: Handpicking Vizcaya’s Flowers, Plants and Trees

Cheerful Chirps

Deering Style: Grooming Makes the Man

Safe Haven: Securing Vizcaya

J@Play: Cultivating Vizcaya’s Sporting Experience

J.D. the D.J.: Composing Vizcaya’s Musical Soundtrack

Why Did A Playful Seahorse Annoy James Deering?

Speakeasy, James Deering: Working Around Prohibition

Sticker Shock: The Cost Of Building A Legacy

Vizcaya After Deering

Building in Wartime and Pandemic

Personal Relationships: “Hard To Get To Know”

Correspondence Collection: “Over 24,000 Letters and Telegrams”

The Building of Vizcaya: “A Huge Public Affair”

Knowing Fact From Fiction: “Passionate and Frank”

The Technology Early Adopter

Explore by Map

Project Credits

How can we improve this experience?

“In the 1920s over 200 million telegrams were sent each year”

Biographies

Meet the Deerings

Behind The Caravel

Buy Vizcaya Tickets

Absolutely Alone: Vizcaya’s lost Casba and Deering’s search for a retreat

Rising Tides: Thinking about hurricanes in building Vizcaya

What Motivated James Deering’s Rush to Occupy Vizcaya?
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Accessibility Statement
Vizcaya in the Words of its Founder

Yours Truly is a mobile virtual experience that explores the personal life, and personality, of Vizcaya’s owner James Deering. Letters, telegrams, historic images, 360 photography and 3D object scans bring James Deering to life. Dive into the stories with us. 

Click the close button in the top right corner to continue the experience.

For more virtual experiences, such as a virtual tour, and virtual access to The Barge and Swimming Pool Grotto, please visit: https://virtualvizcaya.org/index.html.

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