An American Renaissance GemHow an industrialist and his unlikely team built a Miami marvelThe Wall Street Journal, December 9, 2006; Page P13By John Massengale VizcayaBy Witold Rybczynski and Laurie OlinPenn Press, 274 pages, $34.95 Some of our greatest buildings are not as well known as they should be. How many...

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Jean Montague, Mrs. John Edward Massengale, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but grew up in Evanston, Illinois, a pleasant lakeside suburb of Chicago. Her father was an engineer who struggled during the Depression. Like many Americans her age, she never lost the frugality imposed on her by that experience. Jean...

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