Gorgeous photos show Mar-a-Lago before it was bought by Trump

Vintage photos of Mar-a-Lago captured nan stunning Florida estate earlier Donald Trump famously made it his location base.

Prior to nan erstwhile president buying nan historical landmark successful 1985, it belonged to America's richest woman.

Marjorie Merriweather Post obtained her wealthiness done her father's Post cereal fortune. She inherited nan $20million Post Cereal Company erstwhile he died successful 1914, Business Insider reported.

Post spent years looking for nan champion location for Mar-a-Lago, which intends 'Sea to Lake' successful Spanish, because she wanted it perfectly situated betwixt nan water and adjacent Lake Worth, according to Mara-a-Lago's website. 

The heiress had nan Palm Beach spot built betwixt 1924 to 1927. She and her husband, E.F. Hutton, hired architect Marion Sims Wyeth to transportation retired nan elaborate project.

Now, nan spot is located astatine 1100 South Ocean Boulevard. But erstwhile it was first built, it was surrounded by swampland. 

Post maintained ownership of Mar-a-Lago aft she and her hubby divided successful 1935. 

She hosted kindness balls, dinners and dances astatine nan celebrated estate, Business Insider reported. 

The Mediterranean-styled villa had 114 rooms, packed pinch exquisite specifications from countries including Italy, Spain, France and Cuba. 

It sat connected astir 20 acres of land.  

Even though Post would only walk a fewer months each twelvemonth astatine nan spot - arsenic she besides had estates successful Washington, DC and Upstate New York - each room was adorned pinch unsocial and costly elements. 

'The architecture, sculpture, readying and craftsmanship that went into this magnificent property could not beryllium duplicated today,' Mar-a-Lago's website states. 

Outside Mar-a-Lago, which Post utilized arsenic her wintertime home, were arches made of Dorian chromatic pinch bits of seashells and fossils from Genoa, Italy. 

Other exterior features and immoderate accents wrong nan villa were made of nan aforesaid material. 

As shown successful photos from 1967, nan broadside of nan location that faced Lake Worth had a curved style pinch staircases connected either side.

Cloisters were filled pinch well-kept plants and greenery.

It was built to beryllium hurricane-resistant, pinch actual and alloy anchors grounding it into a coral reef. 

The hallway starring guests from nan main entranceway was dressed up pinch star-shaped ray fixtures and intricate carvings and artwork by Australian sculptor Franz Barwig. 

About 36,000 Spanish tiles - immoderate making love backmost to nan 15th period - were featured passim Mar-a-Lago's interior. 

The lavish surviving area featured a golden ceiling, alluding to nan Thousand-Wing Ceiling astatine nan Accademia successful Venice, according to The Palm Beach Post. 

Large chandeliers and lamps lit nan room, filled pinch elegant furnishings and wall designs.

The eating room's black-and-white tiles were taken from a Cuban castle. The room itself mirrored nan eating room successful nan Palazzo Chigi successful Rome.

Thirty group could beryllium for a repast astatine nan agelong rectangle array made from semi-precious stones.

There was an full room dedicated to Venetian glasses, mirrors and chandlers. 

As 1 could imagine, Post's chamber and attached dressing rooms fell thing short of glamorous, pinch marbled accents, a fireplace and carved-wood furniture. 

In 1961, Post added a creation level to nan tract to big square-dancing parties. Originally from Illinois, she loved square-dancing passim her life, Business Insider reported.  

Mar-a-Lago was deemed a National Historic tract successful 1969. 

Post died successful 1973 pinch a luck of $250million - aliases $1.8million today, according to Business Insider. 

She near Mar-a-Lago to nan US authorities to usage arsenic a spot for presidents to stay, but nan authorities returned nan spot to nan Post Foundation aft a decade because it was excessively costly to maintain. 

Some items from nan original home, including nan eating room array and respective pieces of 18th-century French artwork, are now displayed astatine Post's Hillwood Estate successful Washington, DC. 

Trump swooped successful and purchased nan spot successful 1985. Tens years later, he opened it up to nan nationalist arsenic a members nine were group could bask nan beach, a pool, a salon, a spa and tennis courts.

He besides started offering Mar-a-Lago arsenic an arena abstraction for weddings and different royal events. 

He tried to support nan spot arsenic akin to Post's type of it arsenic imaginable and restored it to really it looked erstwhile she lived there, according to Business Insider.  

'It is nan past remaining Palm Beach property still containing its buildings and onshore successful almost identical shape arsenic its original conception,' its website states. 

The ballroom was modernized and nan play people was 'brought backmost to life.' 

Mar-a-Lago was raided by nan FBI successful 2022. During nan raid, agents acquired 100 of classified documents, starring to Trump being charged pinch mishandling authorities documents. 

Trump's ineligible squad based on that nan ambush of Mar-a-Lago was unconstitutional.

Last month, law enforcement swarmed nan area for a overmuch different reason. 

A 2nd assassination effort was made against Trump astatine his West Palm Beach play club, which is conscionable 5 miles distant from nan property.