thumb|left|boca raton resort main entrance  thumb|boca raton resort porte-cochere the boca raton resort & club, which opened february 6, 1926 as the ritz-carlton cloister inn, is a large resort and membership-based club located in boca raton, florida. originally designed by california-born architect, addison mizner, it was intended to have been the second of two hotels, with the other an oceanfront hotel. however, the ritz-carlton investment corporation became involved in the project, and wanted the oceanfront hotel redesigned, so construction began on the then smaller 100 room inn on the west side of lake boca raton. throughout the florida land boom of the 1920s, mizner visioned and began to plan boca raton as a major resort destination.minzer development map to that extent a golf course and residential community, the ritz-carlton park, was planned west of the seaboard coast line railroad. today this is the site of sugar sand park and boca del mar. nevertheless, the resort didn't gain a full-service country club until the acquisition of the boca country club, seven miles northwest of the main hotel, immediately outside of the city limits. currently, the club is part of waldorf astoria hotels and resorts by the hilton hotels corporation, an affiliate of the blackstone group. before the spring of 2009, lxr luxury resorts operated the resort.[http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2005/08/15/daily41.html "lxr is new umbrella for some s
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