Mar-a-Lago
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Between 1924 and 1927, Mar-a-Lago was built for Marjorie Merriweather Post by architects Joseph Urban and Marion Sims Wyeth. Upon her death in 1973, Post bequeathed the estate to the National Park Service with the intention that it serve as a Winter White House. However, due to insufficient funding for its upkeep and challenges in securing the property, it was returned to the Post Foundation by an act of Congress in 1980. In 1985, Donald Trump, then a businessman and real estate investor, purchased Mar-a-Lago and used it as a personal residence. In 1994, he transformed it into the Mar-a-Lago Club, a private members-only establishment offering guest rooms, a spa, and other amenities. Since 2019, Trump has declared the estate as his primary residence.This group of records contains historical information on Mar-a-Lago such as images and postcards, newspaper clippings, architectural drawings, and blueprints completed by Wyeth and Urban, and Preservation Foundation newsletters from the 1980s-1990s.
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Mar-a-Lago Interior, 1988 - 1992
File — Box 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Eugene Lawrence Collection contains photographs and newspaper clippings of and relating to properties designed and built by Eugene Lawrence and the Lawrence group between 1965-2013. Properties are both residential and commercial, and center in Palm Beach, Florida, although Lawrence did design buildings in other locations within the Palm Beach County, Florida region.
Dates:
1988 - 1992
Newsletters, 1982-present
File
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series includes minor publications by the Foundation, such as newsletters and other ephemera.
Dates:
Other: 1982-present
Series V: Business Records, 1948 - 1993
Series
Scope and Contents
Includes files from Jane Volk and her involvement with Mar-a-Lago in the 2000s. See box labeled Jane Volk and Jane Day Research.
Dates:
1948 - 1993