08/19/2026
Addison Mizner designed for the climate as much as the eye. Shaded arcades, thick stucco walls, red barrel-tile roofs, rooms that catch the sea breeze and stay cool in coastal heat. He designed with a Mediterranean language shaped for subtropical sun.
In 1928 Mizer brought this language to Sea Island in The Cloister, the only building he ever designed in Georgia. That single hotel proved so suited to its place that nearly everything built on the island since has honored this tradition. Hart Howerton continued Mizner’s legacy at Sea Island, expanding the hotel to carry the spirit of the place forward, nearly a century later.