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Paris Eugene Singer (20 February 1867 – 24 June 1932) was an early resident of Palm Beach, Florida. Singer was an American real estate developer and philanthropist and he was noted as being a "man of luxury".
He was 22nd of the 24 children of inventor and industrialist Isaac Singer of Singer Sewing Machine Company fame, from whom he inherited money; and the fourth child of Isabella Eugénie Boyer's six.[citation needed]
Born in Paris, Singer was raised at Oldway Mansion in Paignton, Devon, England, and educated at Newton Abbot Proprietary College alongside fellow students Arthur Quiller-Couch, Percy Harrison Fawcett and Bertram Fletcher Robinson. In 1885 he matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, but like his elder brother Mortimer left without taking a degree.
Singer married Australian-born Cecilia Henrietta Augusta ("Lillie") Graham (1867–1951), who bore him five children. He had a tempestuous romance with famous dancer Isadora Duncan, whose career he helped, and with whom he had another son, Patrick (born 1910, drowned 1913). Singer Island, Florida, is named for him.
In 1917 Singer met the future Palm Beach architect Addison Mizner; they became "inseparable." It was through Singer's influence that Mizner arrived in Palm Beach on January 5, 1918, in part for his health; he was Singer's house guest (at 123 Peruvian Avenue). Mizner's first Florida project was transforming Singer's unimpressive "villa" into the Chinese Villa, in which Singer lived until the Everglades Club was completed in 1919.
Mizner said of Singer in 1917:
[He was] the cause of my existence for the next ten years. He was the finest-looking man I ever saw; six feet, three or four, straight as a die, with a fine figure. At this time, he was fifty and looked forty.
He wrote later:
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Paris Singer
Paris Eugene Singer (20 February 1867 – 24 June 1932) was an early resident of Palm Beach, Florida. Singer was an American real estate developer and philanthropist and he was noted as being a "man of luxury".
He was 22nd of the 24 children of inventor and industrialist Isaac Singer of Singer Sewing Machine Company fame, from whom he inherited money; and the fourth child of Isabella Eugénie Boyer's six.[citation needed]
Born in Paris, Singer was raised at Oldway Mansion in Paignton, Devon, England, and educated at Newton Abbot Proprietary College alongside fellow students Arthur Quiller-Couch, Percy Harrison Fawcett and Bertram Fletcher Robinson. In 1885 he matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, but like his elder brother Mortimer left without taking a degree.
Singer married Australian-born Cecilia Henrietta Augusta ("Lillie") Graham (1867–1951), who bore him five children. He had a tempestuous romance with famous dancer Isadora Duncan, whose career he helped, and with whom he had another son, Patrick (born 1910, drowned 1913). Singer Island, Florida, is named for him.
In 1917 Singer met the future Palm Beach architect Addison Mizner; they became "inseparable." It was through Singer's influence that Mizner arrived in Palm Beach on January 5, 1918, in part for his health; he was Singer's house guest (at 123 Peruvian Avenue). Mizner's first Florida project was transforming Singer's unimpressive "villa" into the Chinese Villa, in which Singer lived until the Everglades Club was completed in 1919.
Mizner said of Singer in 1917:
[He was] the cause of my existence for the next ten years. He was the finest-looking man I ever saw; six feet, three or four, straight as a die, with a fine figure. At this time, he was fifty and looked forty.
He wrote later:
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