Lavender House, Mission Revival residence in Boca Raton, Florida

The Lavender House is a residential building in Mission Revival style located on Alamanda Street and displays the characteristic features of this architectural approach. The structure features stucco exterior walls, red-tiled roofs, and symmetrical facades typical of that construction period.

Hermann V. von Holst, a Prairie School architect from Chicago, designed this house in the early 1900s. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, making it one of the few surviving examples from that construction period in the city.

The house takes its name from Alamanda Street, not from lavender: the street name was shortened from the original Alamanda, a flowering tree. Lucy von Holst and the wives of John Verhoeven and Fred Aiken furnished the unsold Floresta houses for winter rentals to snowbirds, a practice that shaped the neighbourhood's early social life.

The house is located in a quiet residential neighborhood and can be viewed from the street, though it remains a private residence. Visitors should understand that interior access is generally not available, but the architecture is clearly visible from the exterior.

Real estate agents in Boca Raton often attribute the Floresta houses to Addison Mizner, but the plans were by Hermann V. von Holst, a Chicago Prairie School architect. Mizner served as general contractor and developer of Floresta's first stage, then defaulted on payments to contractors; von Holst successfully sued him and took charge of the neighbourhood.