910 South Ocean Boulevard - site of former Casa Florencia - designed by Addison Mizner

Per Palm Beach tax assessor's office: Owned by PBC Realty. This is currently (Oct 2007) a vacant lot which has not been divided into 2 separate lots. Sales information: sold in May 1996 for $3,000,000 by Ocean Bay Holding Ltd. to Fred F. Kriz; sold in June 1999 for $1,950,000 by Fred F. Kriz to Atlantic RE Trust, Inc; and sold in February 2002 for $8,375,000 by Atlantic Real Estate Trust, Inc. to PBC Realy, LLC. The 2007 market value for the 2 lots combined is $12,600,000 or $6,300,000 for each .69 acre lot.
This is the site the former estate known as Casa Florencia which was designed by famed architect Addison Mizner in 1923 for Dr. Preston Pope Satterwhite. The mansion was torn down in 1952. Casa Florencia was one of Mizner's most beautiful homes. The Satterwhites were demanding clients, insisting on an appropriate background for their growing art collection. The house pleased them so much that they decided upon what one writer called "a Renaissance gesture"--they commissioned Percival Dietsch, a sculptor who had done the bas-reliefs over several doors at Playa Riente, to execute a bas-relief portrait of Mizner for the keystone over the stairway window. When Mrs. Satterwhite in May 1927, only 4 yeas after commissioning the house, Dr. Satterwhite placed Casa Florencia on the market. John North Willys, the Toledo automaker, purchased the estate in 1929. His daughter later inherited the property; in 1952 she had Casa Florencia torn down because "it was too big" and built a ranch-style house on the site--thankfully the ranch-style house has been torn down! The remains of the Satterwhite mansion, and presumably the bas-relief of Mizner, are buried under a large mound on the lot.