DESCRIPTION: Fascinating plat related to the development of Boca Raton, Florida south of the Boca Raton inlet in the immediate post-WWII era.
We offer an unrecorded tract map for the "Cabanas Tract Unit 1" in Boca Raton, Florida, located just south of the Boca Raton Inlet. Four major developers owned that land over time, Mizner, Geist, Schine, and Davis (1). Based on the plat's style and execution as well as street names, it seems that the Cabanas Tract plat is likely a J. Myer Schine proposed development plat dating between 1944 and 1956. (J. Meyer Schine purchased the Boca Raton Club and the Spanish River Land Co. in 1944.
He owned it until 1956, when Arthur Vining Davis/ Arvida acquired the property and associated land holdings.)
One interesting feature is that the lot sizes on the plat are much larger than those found in that area today. Also, the green area, likely a proposed park, does not exist. Today Spanish River Road (then Palm Drive) extends all the way from E. Camino Real to E. 31st Street.
Based on the scale the hand-colored portion of our Cabanas Tract encompasses approximately 130 acres and extends southward from Via Cabana Drive to Bel Air Road (Now SE 31st), street a distance about 3600 linear feet.
Drawn by C. Sederlund. Scale 1 inch = 200 feet.
The Cabana Club, Boca Raton (1929 – 1980)
 Cabana Club. Boca Raton, Florida. Circa 1950.
The Cabana Club was the oceanfront jewel of the early Boca Raton Club, conceived in the late 1920s when financier Clarence Geist expanded Addison Mizner’s Cloister Inn into a full-service resort community. Completed around 1930, the Cabana Club provided members with a direct link to the Atlantic through more than 200 private cabanas, a saltwater pool, and Mediterranean-style dining and lounge pavilions. Its open-air architecture, palm-lined courtyards, and seaside verandas embodied the elegance and leisure of interwar Florida’s “Golden Coast.”
Following World War II, ownership passed to hotel magnate J. Myer Schine, whose family transformed the Cabana Club into a vibrant mid-century social center. Under Schine management, the club hosted community events, dances, and weekend gatherings, offering day memberships that broadened access to Boca’s exclusive beach life.
By the late 1970s, the aging complex gave way to redevelopment. In 1980, new owner Arvida Corporation (Authur Vining Davis) built the modern Boca Beach Club, and by 1985 – 1986 the twin-tower condominium The Addison on the Ocean rose on the original site—marking the close of a fifty-year era when the Cabana Club defined Boca Raton’s seaside glamour.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1944
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Atlantic Ocean, Intracoastal Waterway
CONDITION: Good.
Folds as issued. Blueline with manuscript pencil hand color.
COLORING: Manuscript color.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 29
" x
16 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION:
PRICE: $365
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