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The Mill Reef Club was founded in 1947 on the Caribbean island of Antigua. The visionary American architect who championed the 1, 500-acre Club was Robertson ¿Happy¿ Ward. Ward solicited interest in the Club among a whös who of American industrialists and leading citizens, including Mellons, DuPonts, Cowles, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and poet Archibald MacLeish. Ward encouraged members who built homes on Club property to adhere to a mid...

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In 1946, Robertson ¿Happy¿ Ward, the famed mid-century modernist, embarked on the Caribbean¿s most successful architectural endeavor: erecting the Mill Reef Club in Antigua, West Indies. At a time when images of nuclear war stalked the American imagination and the great American architects were preoccupied with the grimmer strains of modernism¿skyscrapers, airports, and bunkers¿Ward rebelled: in the Mill Reef Club, he somehow monumentalized Am...

In 1946, Robertson Ward embarked on the Caribbean s most successful architectural endeavor: Mill Reef Club. At a time when images of nuclear war stalked the American imagination and architects were preoccupied with the grimmer strains of modernism skyscrapers, airports, and bunkers Ward rebelled, creating instead the Mill Reef Club. This book presents an illustrated study of his amazing vision.