Mar-A-Lago

Donald Trump's private club also hosts charity events and music performances.

Breakfast-food heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post commissioned a Hollywood set designer to create Ocean Boulevard's famed Mar-a-Lago, a 114-room, 110,000-square-foot Mediterranean-revival palace. Its 75-foot Italianate tower is visible from many areas of Palm Beach and from across the Intracoastal Waterway in West Palm Beach. Owner Donald Trump has turned it into a private membership club. So...

Founded in 1927, the Mar-a-Lago Club comprises nearly 20 acres of landscaped lawns. Its building has been made in the Hispano-Moresque style. It is crescent-shaped structure with an upper and lower cloister along the concave side of the building that faces the Lake Worth. The club houses a swimming pool, a beauty salon, a spa, grass and red clay championship tennis courts and a croquet court....

Mar-A-Lago , built 1924-1927, is the name of the Marjorie Merriweather Post estate in Palm Beach, Florida.HistoryPost built the house with her husband, Edward F. Hutton. The architect was Marion Sims Wyeth, FAIA. Interior design and exterior decorations for the house were created by Joseph Urban. Upon her death in 1973 Marjorie Post willed the estate to the U.S. Government as a retreat for...