The historic Mar-a-Lago Club home may be best known as Donald Trump's home – playing host to the President-elect and his family on the night of the election. However, while this Palm Beach estate has increased in fame over recent years (following his first presidency in 2017), it has a vivid history that dating back over an entire century.
The ornate Moorish-style property is the product of architects Marion Sims Wyeth and Joseph Urban’s genius. Marjorie Merriweather Post, a socialite (and heiress to the Postum Cereal Company) comissoned them to design the ocean-front property that was built between 1924 and 1927 – soon after she became American's richest woman. In 1973, she donated the 20-acre property to the U.S. government to be used as the ‘winter White House,’ considering its sunny zip code, which was surely welcome to those used to a notably colder DC.
