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The '''Everglades Club''' is a historic private social and recreational institution located in [[Palm Beach, Florida]], founded in 1919 by [[Paris Singer]] and the architect [[Addison Mizner]] as one of the region's most influential private clubs.<ref>{{cite book |last=Curl |first=Donald W. |title=Mizner's Florida: American Resort Architecture |publisher=MIT Press |year=1984 |isbn=978-0262530651}}</ref> Situated along [[Worth Avenue]] in the heart of Palm Beach, it has served as a gathering place for prominent residents, visitors, and members of the broader South Florida community for more than a century. The club is recognized for its distinctive [[Mediterranean Revival architecture]], its | The '''Everglades Club''' is a historic private social and recreational institution located in [[Palm Beach, Florida]], founded in 1919 by [[Paris Singer]] and the architect [[Addison Mizner]] as one of the region's most influential private clubs.<ref>{{cite book |last=Curl |first=Donald W. |title=Mizner's Florida: American Resort Architecture |publisher=MIT Press |year=1984 |isbn=978-0262530651}}</ref> Situated along [[Worth Avenue]] in the heart of Palm Beach, it has served as a gathering place for prominent residents, visitors, and members of the broader South Florida community for more than a century. The club is recognized for its distinctive [[Mediterranean Revival architecture]], its collections of art and cultural artifacts, and its role in shaping Palm Beach society throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As a private membership organization, it maintains selective admission standards and offers dining, recreational, and cultural programming rooted in the traditions established at its founding. | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
The Everglades Club was founded in 1919 by Paris Singer, son of | The Everglades Club was founded in 1919 by Paris Singer, son of sewing machine magnate [[Isaac Singer (industrialist)|Isaac Singer]], who conceived the project initially as a convalescent facility for World War I veterans before it was reimagined and opened as an exclusive private club.<ref>{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=Alva |title=The Legendary Mizners |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Young |year=1953}}</ref> Singer commissioned his close friend [[Addison Mizner]], then a relatively obscure architect, to design the building, a decision that proved transformative. It launched Mizner's celebrated career in Palm Beach and established the Mediterranean Revival style as the dominant architectural language of the island for decades to come.<ref>{{cite book |last=Curl |first=Donald W. |title=Mizner's Florida: American Resort Architecture |publisher=MIT Press |year=1984 |isbn=978-0262530651}}</ref> | ||
The | The original convalescent purpose was short-lived. Singer had initially secured the support of the American Red Cross and envisioned a facility where returning veterans could recuperate in Palm Beach's warm climate, but the project's conversion to a private club was underway by the time construction concluded. The transition happened quickly. The club's first social season drew wealthy Northern industrialists, philanthropists, and businessmen who had begun wintering in Palm Beach following Henry Flagler's extension of the [[Florida East Coast Railway]] to the island in 1894, which had made the barrier island accessible to affluent visitors from the Northeast nearly three decades before the club's founding.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kleinberg |first=Howard |title=Florida: A History |publisher=Surfside Publishing |year=1995}}</ref> | ||
The founding of the club predated the Florida land boom of the mid-1920s by several years. By the time that speculative frenzy was transforming South Florida from a sparsely populated frontier into a destination for wealthy investors and seasonal residents, the Everglades Club was already an established institution at the center of Palm Beach social life. The founding membership included prominent businessmen, industrialists, and philanthropists who sought a venue for leisure and social engagement during the winter season, and the club's position along what would become Worth Avenue placed it at the geographic and social center of the island's emerging resort culture. | |||
=== Architecture and Design === | |||
The club's history through the mid-twentieth century tracked closely with the broader fortunes of Palm Beach. The collapse of the Florida land boom in 1926, followed by the Great Depression, tested many of the institutions that had flourished during the speculative frenzy of the early 1920s. The Everglades Club survived that period and maintained its operations through World War II, emerging in the postwar decades as a fixture of Palm Beach's reconstituted social season. It's a record of institutional continuity that few comparable clubs can match. | Mizner's design for the club drew on Spanish, Moorish, and Italian sources to create a building of considerable visual richness.<ref>{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=Alva |title=The Legendary Mizners |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Young |year=1953}}</ref> Arched windows, hand-painted decorative tiles, wrought iron detailing, and palm-lined interior courtyards give the structure its distinctive character. A central loggia opens onto landscaped grounds, and the club's roofline, with its clay barrel tiles and stuccoed walls, established a visual vocabulary that Mizner would apply across dozens of Palm Beach estates and commercial buildings in the years that followed.<ref>{{cite book |last=Curl |first=Donald W. |title=Mizner's Florida: American Resort Architecture |publisher=MIT Press |year=1984 |isbn=978-0262530651}}</ref> The building was conceived as both a functional club facility and an architectural statement, embodying the romantic, sun-drenched aesthetic that defined Mizner's mature work. | ||
Mizner brought to the project a deep familiarity with European decorative traditions acquired during years of travel and study in Spain, Guatemala, and elsewhere, and that knowledge is still visible in the club's interiors more than a hundred years later.<ref>{{cite book |last=Orr |first=Christina |title=Addison Mizner: Architect of Dreams and Realities |publisher=Norton Gallery of Art |year=1977}}</ref> He was an active collector of antiques and Spanish colonial art, and his personal aesthetic shaped the club's early interiors as much as its exterior architecture. Imported Spanish tiles, salvaged stone carvings, and custom ironwork contributed to an interior environment that felt both genuinely old and entirely of its moment. That combination was intentional. Mizner wanted the Everglades Club to feel as though it had always been there. | |||
Mizner's work on the club directly shaped the development of Worth Avenue as a luxury commercial corridor. His subsequent development of the Mizner Mile extended the Mediterranean Revival vocabulary into the street's retail architecture, producing the arcaded storefronts, intimate vias, and courtyard passages that still define Worth Avenue today.<ref>{{cite book |last=Curl |first=Donald W. |title=Mizner's Florida: American Resort Architecture |publisher=MIT Press |year=1984 |isbn=978-0262530651}}</ref> The Everglades Club served as the stylistic template for that broader project. Without it, Worth Avenue as it exists today would look entirely different. Throughout subsequent decades, the club underwent periodic renovations and expansions to accommodate evolving membership needs while maintaining fidelity to its original architectural vocabulary, and the structure retains much of its 1919 character today.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Everglades Club |url=https://golfadelphia.com/2026/04/28/the-everglades-club/ |work=Golfadelphia |date=2026-04-28 |access-date=2026-05-01}}</ref> | |||
=== Paris Singer and the Club's Founding Sensibility === | |||
Paris Singer's broader cultural interests shaped the club's founding sensibility in ways that extended beyond architecture. Singer was a significant patron of the arts and a close companion of the dancer [[Isadora Duncan]], whose circle encompassed prominent artists and intellectuals of the early twentieth century.<ref>{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=Alva |title=The Legendary Mizners |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Young |year=1953}}</ref> That milieu informed the cultural ambitions Singer brought to the Everglades Club project. He chose Palm Beach partly because of its established winter colony and partly because the land itself, flat and sun-drenched at the edge of the Atlantic, offered a blank canvas that a more historically encumbered place could not. Singer had the money, the taste, and the connections to build something lasting. Mizner had the vision to design it. | |||
The club's interior spaces feature collections of art, furnishings, and decorative objects that reflect both the personal collecting interests of prominent members and the club's long-term commitment to cultural stewardship. Mizner himself contributed significantly to the early collection, sourcing pieces during his travels and through his own antiques dealership, which supplied furnishings to many of the Palm Beach estates he designed during the same period.<ref>{{cite book |last=Orr |first=Christina |title=Addison Mizner: Architect of Dreams and Realities |publisher=Norton Gallery of Art |year=1977}}</ref> | |||
=== The Mid-Twentieth Century === | |||
The club's history through the mid-twentieth century tracked closely with the broader fortunes of Palm Beach. The collapse of the Florida land boom in 1926, followed by the Great Depression, tested many of the institutions that had flourished during the speculative frenzy of the early 1920s. The Everglades Club survived that period and maintained its operations through World War II, emerging in the postwar decades as a fixture of Palm Beach's reconstituted social season. It's a record of institutional continuity that few comparable clubs can match. The postwar era brought new membership, new money, and new programming, but the club's essential character, rooted in Mizner's architecture and Singer's founding ambitions, remained largely intact. | |||
== Membership and Social History == | == Membership and Social History == | ||
Membership in the Everglades Club has historically been selective and limited, with admission standards emphasizing social standing, professional achievement, and | Membership in the Everglades Club has historically been selective and limited, with admission standards emphasizing social standing, professional achievement, and established ties to the Palm Beach community. The club's early decades reflected the exclusions characteristic of early twentieth-century American club culture. It was widely known as one of several Palm Beach institutions that maintained antisemitic admission policies throughout much of the twentieth century, a practice common among elite American private clubs of that era and one that drew sustained criticism as American social norms shifted in the postwar period.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rozhon |first=Tracie |title=Where the Elite Meet, Some Bias Still Lingers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/29/us/where-the-elite-meet-some-bias-still-lingers.html |work=The New York Times |date=1997-01-29 |access-date=2024-01-15}}</ref> Not without controversy, this history remains part of the public record on the institution. The club today maintains gender-inclusive membership policies in its contemporary operations. | ||
Over the course of the twentieth century, the membership rolls included prominent industrialists, philanthropists, political figures, and cultural leaders whose influence extended well beyond Palm Beach itself. The club functioned as an informal network node during the winter season, when many of America's most powerful families concentrated on the island. Business relationships formed there, political alliances were built, and philanthropic projects were seeded in conversations that happened within its walls and on its grounds. The annual calendar of events, including formal dinners, holiday celebrations, and recreational tournaments, has maintained continuity with historical traditions while adapting to contemporary preferences. | |||
Governance rests with the membership through elected leadership, which has allowed the club to maintain its programming priorities consistent with its historical mission without external interference. The membership composition has always reflected the economic and demographic profile of Palm Beach itself, where substantial wealth, established family histories, and international business connections are common among residents. | |||
== Culture == | == Culture == | ||
Beyond its primary role as a recreational venue, the Everglades Club has functioned as a cultural and social institution for more than a century. Throughout its history, it has hosted lectures, exhibitions, musical performances, and other cultural events that have contributed to the intellectual and artistic life of the Palm Beach community. The club's library and reading rooms have served as spaces for discourse and private study | Beyond its primary role as a recreational venue, the Everglades Club has functioned as a cultural and social institution for more than a century. Throughout its history, it has hosted lectures, exhibitions, musical performances, and other cultural events that have contributed to the intellectual and artistic life of the Palm Beach community. The club's library and reading rooms have served as spaces for discourse and private study, and its galleries and public rooms have periodically displayed works of art and historical artifacts of significance to the region. | ||
Private clubs in affluent resort communities often serve as informal patrons of the arts and conveners of intellectual exchange | Private clubs in affluent resort communities often serve as informal patrons of the arts and conveners of intellectual exchange. The Everglades Club has followed that tradition consistently. The founding sensibility established by Singer and Mizner set a tone the institution has broadly maintained, one that values aesthetic quality, historical continuity, and cultural engagement as elements of club life rather than incidental features. The club's archival holdings represent a meaningful resource for understanding the social history of Palm Beach and the development of American private club culture more broadly, and they have drawn the attention of historians, architectural scholars, and journalists for decades. | ||
== | == Facilities == | ||
The Everglades Club maintains several principal facilities for its membership. Dining rooms and banquet facilities provide fine dining | The Everglades Club maintains several principal facilities for its membership. Dining rooms and banquet facilities provide fine dining prepared by professional culinary staff and accommodate private events, member gatherings, and cultural programming, making it a venue of choice for significant social occasions within Palm Beach. The grounds surrounding the club include landscaped gardens and outdoor spaces maintained according to the horticultural standards for which Palm Beach is known, providing settings for relaxation and social interaction across the winter season. | ||
Sports and recreational facilities have evolved over the decades to reflect contemporary interests while maintaining the traditional activities central to Palm Beach club culture. Golf has long been associated with the club's recreational identity, and the club's course and related facilities remain central to its programming.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Everglades Club |url=https://golfadelphia.com/2026/04/28/the-everglades-club/ |work=Golfadelphia |date=2026-04-28 |access-date=2026-05-01}}</ref> Members also have access to fitness facilities and organized activities that contribute to its role as a comprehensive leisure venue. The club's library, archives, and cultural spaces provide intellectual and artistic resources to the membership, and periodic exhibitions ensure that it functions as more than a recreational facility alone | Sports and recreational facilities have evolved over the decades to reflect contemporary interests while maintaining the traditional activities central to Palm Beach club culture. Golf has long been associated with the club's recreational identity, and the club's course and related facilities remain central to its programming.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Everglades Club |url=https://golfadelphia.com/2026/04/28/the-everglades-club/ |work=Golfadelphia |date=2026-04-28 |access-date=2026-05-01}}</ref> Members also have access to fitness facilities and organized activities that contribute to its role as a comprehensive leisure venue. The club's library, archives, and cultural spaces provide intellectual and artistic resources to the membership, and periodic exhibitions ensure that it functions as more than a recreational facility alone. | ||
== | == Historical Significance == | ||
Throughout its history, the Everglades Club has been associated with significant figures in Palm Beach society, business, and American culture at large. Prominent industrialists, philanthropists, political leaders, and cultural figures have counted themselves among the membership over the past century | Throughout its history, the Everglades Club has been associated with significant figures in Palm Beach society, business, and American culture at large. Prominent industrialists, philanthropists, political leaders, and cultural figures have counted themselves among the membership over the past century, and their activities extended far beyond the club itself. It has hosted galas, business gatherings, and cultural events that brought together influential individuals and helped build important social and professional connections across multiple generations of American life. | ||
The club's archives and historical collections represent valuable primary sources for understanding the history of Palm Beach, the development of Addison Mizner's architectural practice, and the social history of one of America's most concentrated communities of wealth. Scholarly and popular interest in the Everglades Club reflects broader fascination with the history of exclusive institutions, American leisure culture, and Florida's long development as a winter destination for the nation's affluent population. The institution has maintained its character and | The club's archives and historical collections represent valuable primary sources for understanding the history of Palm Beach, the development of Addison Mizner's architectural practice, and the social history of one of America's most concentrated communities of wealth.<ref>{{cite book |last=Curl |first=Donald W. |title=Mizner's Florida: American Resort Architecture |publisher=MIT Press |year=1984 |isbn=978-0262530651}}</ref> Scholarly and popular interest in the Everglades Club reflects broader fascination with the history of exclusive institutions, American leisure culture, and Florida's long development as a winter destination for the nation's affluent population. The institution has maintained its character and independence despite the substantial changes that have transformed Palm Beach and South Florida over more than a hundred years. That continuity is itself a defining feature of the club's identity. | ||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
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* [[Worth Avenue]] | * [[Worth Avenue]] | ||
[[Category:West Palm Beach landmarks]] | [[Category:West Palm Beach landmarks]] | ||
[[Category:West Palm Beach history]] | [[Category:West Palm Beach history]] | ||
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```mediawiki The Everglades Club is a historic private social and recreational institution located in Palm Beach, Florida, founded in 1919 by Paris Singer and the architect Addison Mizner as one of the region's most influential private clubs.[1] Situated along Worth Avenue in the heart of Palm Beach, it has served as a gathering place for prominent residents, visitors, and members of the broader South Florida community for more than a century. The club is recognized for its distinctive Mediterranean Revival architecture, its collections of art and cultural artifacts, and its role in shaping Palm Beach society throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As a private membership organization, it maintains selective admission standards and offers dining, recreational, and cultural programming rooted in the traditions established at its founding.
History
The Everglades Club was founded in 1919 by Paris Singer, son of sewing machine magnate Isaac Singer, who conceived the project initially as a convalescent facility for World War I veterans before it was reimagined and opened as an exclusive private club.[2] Singer commissioned his close friend Addison Mizner, then a relatively obscure architect, to design the building, a decision that proved transformative. It launched Mizner's celebrated career in Palm Beach and established the Mediterranean Revival style as the dominant architectural language of the island for decades to come.[3]
The original convalescent purpose was short-lived. Singer had initially secured the support of the American Red Cross and envisioned a facility where returning veterans could recuperate in Palm Beach's warm climate, but the project's conversion to a private club was underway by the time construction concluded. The transition happened quickly. The club's first social season drew wealthy Northern industrialists, philanthropists, and businessmen who had begun wintering in Palm Beach following Henry Flagler's extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to the island in 1894, which had made the barrier island accessible to affluent visitors from the Northeast nearly three decades before the club's founding.[4]
The founding of the club predated the Florida land boom of the mid-1920s by several years. By the time that speculative frenzy was transforming South Florida from a sparsely populated frontier into a destination for wealthy investors and seasonal residents, the Everglades Club was already an established institution at the center of Palm Beach social life. The founding membership included prominent businessmen, industrialists, and philanthropists who sought a venue for leisure and social engagement during the winter season, and the club's position along what would become Worth Avenue placed it at the geographic and social center of the island's emerging resort culture.
Architecture and Design
Mizner's design for the club drew on Spanish, Moorish, and Italian sources to create a building of considerable visual richness.[5] Arched windows, hand-painted decorative tiles, wrought iron detailing, and palm-lined interior courtyards give the structure its distinctive character. A central loggia opens onto landscaped grounds, and the club's roofline, with its clay barrel tiles and stuccoed walls, established a visual vocabulary that Mizner would apply across dozens of Palm Beach estates and commercial buildings in the years that followed.[6] The building was conceived as both a functional club facility and an architectural statement, embodying the romantic, sun-drenched aesthetic that defined Mizner's mature work.
Mizner brought to the project a deep familiarity with European decorative traditions acquired during years of travel and study in Spain, Guatemala, and elsewhere, and that knowledge is still visible in the club's interiors more than a hundred years later.[7] He was an active collector of antiques and Spanish colonial art, and his personal aesthetic shaped the club's early interiors as much as its exterior architecture. Imported Spanish tiles, salvaged stone carvings, and custom ironwork contributed to an interior environment that felt both genuinely old and entirely of its moment. That combination was intentional. Mizner wanted the Everglades Club to feel as though it had always been there.
Mizner's work on the club directly shaped the development of Worth Avenue as a luxury commercial corridor. His subsequent development of the Mizner Mile extended the Mediterranean Revival vocabulary into the street's retail architecture, producing the arcaded storefronts, intimate vias, and courtyard passages that still define Worth Avenue today.[8] The Everglades Club served as the stylistic template for that broader project. Without it, Worth Avenue as it exists today would look entirely different. Throughout subsequent decades, the club underwent periodic renovations and expansions to accommodate evolving membership needs while maintaining fidelity to its original architectural vocabulary, and the structure retains much of its 1919 character today.[9]
Paris Singer and the Club's Founding Sensibility
Paris Singer's broader cultural interests shaped the club's founding sensibility in ways that extended beyond architecture. Singer was a significant patron of the arts and a close companion of the dancer Isadora Duncan, whose circle encompassed prominent artists and intellectuals of the early twentieth century.[10] That milieu informed the cultural ambitions Singer brought to the Everglades Club project. He chose Palm Beach partly because of its established winter colony and partly because the land itself, flat and sun-drenched at the edge of the Atlantic, offered a blank canvas that a more historically encumbered place could not. Singer had the money, the taste, and the connections to build something lasting. Mizner had the vision to design it.
The club's interior spaces feature collections of art, furnishings, and decorative objects that reflect both the personal collecting interests of prominent members and the club's long-term commitment to cultural stewardship. Mizner himself contributed significantly to the early collection, sourcing pieces during his travels and through his own antiques dealership, which supplied furnishings to many of the Palm Beach estates he designed during the same period.[11]
The Mid-Twentieth Century
The club's history through the mid-twentieth century tracked closely with the broader fortunes of Palm Beach. The collapse of the Florida land boom in 1926, followed by the Great Depression, tested many of the institutions that had flourished during the speculative frenzy of the early 1920s. The Everglades Club survived that period and maintained its operations through World War II, emerging in the postwar decades as a fixture of Palm Beach's reconstituted social season. It's a record of institutional continuity that few comparable clubs can match. The postwar era brought new membership, new money, and new programming, but the club's essential character, rooted in Mizner's architecture and Singer's founding ambitions, remained largely intact.
Membership and Social History
Membership in the Everglades Club has historically been selective and limited, with admission standards emphasizing social standing, professional achievement, and established ties to the Palm Beach community. The club's early decades reflected the exclusions characteristic of early twentieth-century American club culture. It was widely known as one of several Palm Beach institutions that maintained antisemitic admission policies throughout much of the twentieth century, a practice common among elite American private clubs of that era and one that drew sustained criticism as American social norms shifted in the postwar period.[12] Not without controversy, this history remains part of the public record on the institution. The club today maintains gender-inclusive membership policies in its contemporary operations.
Over the course of the twentieth century, the membership rolls included prominent industrialists, philanthropists, political figures, and cultural leaders whose influence extended well beyond Palm Beach itself. The club functioned as an informal network node during the winter season, when many of America's most powerful families concentrated on the island. Business relationships formed there, political alliances were built, and philanthropic projects were seeded in conversations that happened within its walls and on its grounds. The annual calendar of events, including formal dinners, holiday celebrations, and recreational tournaments, has maintained continuity with historical traditions while adapting to contemporary preferences.
Governance rests with the membership through elected leadership, which has allowed the club to maintain its programming priorities consistent with its historical mission without external interference. The membership composition has always reflected the economic and demographic profile of Palm Beach itself, where substantial wealth, established family histories, and international business connections are common among residents.
Culture
Beyond its primary role as a recreational venue, the Everglades Club has functioned as a cultural and social institution for more than a century. Throughout its history, it has hosted lectures, exhibitions, musical performances, and other cultural events that have contributed to the intellectual and artistic life of the Palm Beach community. The club's library and reading rooms have served as spaces for discourse and private study, and its galleries and public rooms have periodically displayed works of art and historical artifacts of significance to the region.
Private clubs in affluent resort communities often serve as informal patrons of the arts and conveners of intellectual exchange. The Everglades Club has followed that tradition consistently. The founding sensibility established by Singer and Mizner set a tone the institution has broadly maintained, one that values aesthetic quality, historical continuity, and cultural engagement as elements of club life rather than incidental features. The club's archival holdings represent a meaningful resource for understanding the social history of Palm Beach and the development of American private club culture more broadly, and they have drawn the attention of historians, architectural scholars, and journalists for decades.
Facilities
The Everglades Club maintains several principal facilities for its membership. Dining rooms and banquet facilities provide fine dining prepared by professional culinary staff and accommodate private events, member gatherings, and cultural programming, making it a venue of choice for significant social occasions within Palm Beach. The grounds surrounding the club include landscaped gardens and outdoor spaces maintained according to the horticultural standards for which Palm Beach is known, providing settings for relaxation and social interaction across the winter season.
Sports and recreational facilities have evolved over the decades to reflect contemporary interests while maintaining the traditional activities central to Palm Beach club culture. Golf has long been associated with the club's recreational identity, and the club's course and related facilities remain central to its programming.[13] Members also have access to fitness facilities and organized activities that contribute to its role as a comprehensive leisure venue. The club's library, archives, and cultural spaces provide intellectual and artistic resources to the membership, and periodic exhibitions ensure that it functions as more than a recreational facility alone.
Historical Significance
Throughout its history, the Everglades Club has been associated with significant figures in Palm Beach society, business, and American culture at large. Prominent industrialists, philanthropists, political leaders, and cultural figures have counted themselves among the membership over the past century, and their activities extended far beyond the club itself. It has hosted galas, business gatherings, and cultural events that brought together influential individuals and helped build important social and professional connections across multiple generations of American life.
The club's archives and historical collections represent valuable primary sources for understanding the history of Palm Beach, the development of Addison Mizner's architectural practice, and the social history of one of America's most concentrated communities of wealth.[14] Scholarly and popular interest in the Everglades Club reflects broader fascination with the history of exclusive institutions, American leisure culture, and Florida's long development as a winter destination for the nation's affluent population. The institution has maintained its character and independence despite the substantial changes that have transformed Palm Beach and South Florida over more than a hundred years. That continuity is itself a defining feature of the club's identity.
See Also
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