Casa Bendita
"blessed house"
..set on a ridge facing the Atlantic ocean..
This home was designed in 1922 for US Steel heir, John S. Phipps and his wife Margarita Grace. It set on a 28-acre property that ran from the ocean to the intracoastal waterway. Carefully designed for indoor-outdoor life, capturing the breezes, providing cool shade and sunny terraces with romantic vistas, exempified architect, Addison Mizner at his best.
The house, a Spanish fantasy by the sea could not have been more different from the splendors of the Phipps's famous Georgian country estate at Old Westbury on Long Island.
Westbury House
71 Old Westbury Road
Old Westbury, New York
Westbury House situated on 200 acres is part of Old Westbury Gardens, the former estate of businessman John Shaffer Phipps. The dwelling was built by George A. Crawley in the Carolean Revival style of architecture.
John Phipps died in 1958 and in 1961 his children ordered Casa Bendita to be razed and the property to be subdivided.
With the estate was the Casa Bendita Gazebo built in 1921 which has been demolished though it was rebuilt by Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach and is now located in Bradley Park. The original gazebo was one of the last links to the fabled John S. Phipps estate.
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