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Mar A Lago
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The estate was commissioned in 1924 by Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post Cereal fortune, and designed by architect Joseph V. Smith of Smith & Smith & Smith Associates. Post intended the property, which she named Mar-a-Lago (a conflation of the Spanish phrase mar a lago, meaning "sea to lake," though architecturally inaccurate), to serve as a winter retreat and a showcase for her collection of Baroque furniture [3].
Post’s construction methods employed a…