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Behind this beautiful painting is a beautiful pipe organ. They tour guy was telling us that the builder put a lot of these mock entrances to things throughout the entire house. There are a lot of mock doors so that the aesthetics of the house was always in sync. I guess the Feng Shui of the 20's I'm a bit of a nerd so these useless fact are wonderful information for me.

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The other side of the entertainment room.

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And another piece of useless information about the pipe organ, there is a gentleman that comes in once a week and plays it for 2 hours. It's in the middle of the week in the middle of the day I would love to go down there and listen one day, I imagine it's beautiful to hear.

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A painting in one of the rooms.

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And for our last photo of the Trip Report this is a staircase leading down to the lower part of the house.

When the house was originally built it was an open air house nothing was closed in. After a couple of hurricanes that destroyed certain areas of the home and due to the weather conditions being what there are in FL they decided to enclose the house over the "patio" area and put in AC. Which is always nice in FL.

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So that's it between our two trips we look over 400 photos but I decided not to bore you with them all.

I hope you enjoyed our little piece of Europe right here in FL and all my useless facts about the home.

If you're ever in S FL, the South Beach/Coconut Grove area, and have a couple of hours to kill I highly recommend it. It's on the water so I'm sure even in the dead of summer here it wouldn't be that hot due to the ocean breeze.

Thanks for looking.

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Originally Posted by WishUponAStar

OoooOO, those trees are GORGEOUS!

Once a month they do a night tour there and they have these old large bulb lights hanging from the trees I can only imagine how pretty it is.

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Originally Posted by mousemom

I am from Miami and do not remember if I ever went there. I would love to go someday when I go back and visit.

It's beautiful there. If you've got time I would highly recommend heading there. It on the road that's the last exit of I-95, maybe like a block away from that point very easy to get to.

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Originally Posted by dixie

Wow DF those are beautiful photographs, and very European I may add! I also loved your self portrait it was really good! I know, because ours are always awful!- thanks for sharing though its probably somewhere I would never get to see other wise and I enjoyed them very much-

Thank you very much, we realized afterwords the camera was zoomed in a little but we liked it so we decided to keep it.

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Originally Posted by WishUponAStar

Yeah, it was someone I got friendly with at FAU. Not sure why I was even invited but from what I remember it was SERIOUSLY restricted, she couldn't do 1/2 the things she wanted to do at all. No candles what-so-ever, restriction on music & electrical equiptment, etc... For that kinda money why even bother. It wasn't even as impressive as I would have expected.

Your photos are GORGEOUS!

More so than the money that's what really put me off from it, you were only able to use their catering company, rental company, flower company, you name it only their company. The wedding can only take place during a certain time, whatever too many things you're not able to do.

Thank you we LOVE our camera it's a Fuji S8000fd and the zoom is incredible.

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Originally Posted by WishUponAStar

I love your necklace, so pretty!

The necklace is from Park Lane Jewelry, it's one of those catalog parties. My sister's sister-in-law was having one and I didn't really want to go, but my sister got it for me for Christmas and I love it. Now I want to go to one of the shows.

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I am embarrassed to admit I had never heard of Vizcaya before. What a treasure! Your photos are beautiful.