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  • 227 Brazilian
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  • 400 Building
  • 401 Peruvian
  • 455 Australian
  • Brazilian Court
  • Breakers Row
  • CASA 214
  • Chalet By Ocean
  • Dunster House
  • Eliot House
  • Everglades Plaza
  • L'Ermitage
  • French Villas
  • Island House
  • IL Lugano
  • Kirkland House
  • Lake Towers
  • Lowell House
  • Melbourne House
  • Mid Ocean Club
  • Ocean Towers
  • Palazzo Villas
  • Palm Beach Towers
  • Park Place - 369 Building
  • Southlake
  • Sun and Surf
  • The Australian
  • The Biltmore
  • The Villas
  • Winthrop House
  • Via Flager
  • Villa Plati
  • 2500 Building
  • 2600 Building
  • 2770 Building
  • 3120 Building
  • 3360 Building
  • 3550 South Ocean
  • Ambassador I and II
  • Atriums
  • Beach Point
  • Bellaria
  • Carlton Place
  • Carlyle House
  • Dorchester
  • Emeraude
  • Enclave
  • Halcyon
  • Harbour House
  • La Palma
  • Meridian
  • Palm Beach Hampton
  • Palm Beach Stratford
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History of Palm Beach

In the early 1880’s Henry Flagler, a wealthy Northern industrialist, founded the Town of Palm Beach with the extension of Flagler’s East Coast Railway. Enchanted by Palm Beach’s warm balmy weather and tropical environment, Flagler envisioned Palm Beach as a playground for wealthy Northerners during the cold winter months.


The Town of Palm Beach was founded during the industrial revolution, and largely built in the 1920’s.  Palm Beach became the winter retreat for a new kind of American royalty with tremendous newfound wealth, and the desire to display it to the world. The estates were inspired by the grand, stately palaces of Europe, and intended to establish the families’ lineage and status, which was rarely more than a generation old.


Palm Beach soon became a resort town with lavish hotels and opulent residences. Winter residents decided to build homes of their own, and commissioned some of the grandest homes from the most well-known architects of the time to showcase their wealth.

The Breakers and the History of Palm Beach

Courtesy of The Breakers

Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, FL, hotel

The Breakers Hotel

Henry Flagler thought an elegant and lavish hotel would entice his Northern guests to spend the winter, so he completed the Royal Poinciana Hotel in 1894, followed by the Breakers Hotel on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in 1901. The Breakers Hotel is still exists today, and is one of Palm Beach’s most fashionable and well-known destinations.

The Royal Poinciana Hotel, Palm Beach, FL, historic photo

The Royal Poinciana Hotel

Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach

Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL

Henry Flagler's Palm Beach Home

Built in 1902

Addison Mizner - Worth Avenue

Courtesy of The Palm Beaches Florida

1820 SOUTH OCEAN | COLLADO HUECO
ADDISON MIZNER | 1926  Palm Beach architects was Addision Mizner,

1820 SOUTH OCEAN | COLLADO HUECO

ADDISON MIZNER | 1926

Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach


One of the most significant Palm Beach architects is Addision Mizner, whose Mediterranean Revival, Venetian-inspired architecture exists today in some of Palm Beaches’ grandest homes, as well as the Town’s buildings and its European vias and palazzos. To create the fine details and furnishings of his homes, Mizner created his own shop to mill components and furniture. These fine details, finishes and furnishings still exist today.



Addison Mizner Homes for Sale

550 SOUTH OCEAN 
MAURICE FATIO | 1930 Fatio, born in Switzerland in 1887, Palm Beach architect.

550 SOUTH OCEAN 

MAURICE FATIO | 1930

Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach


Maurice Fatio, born in Switzerland in 1887, is another noted Palm Beach architect. Fatio opened his first office in New York, and later in Palm Beach in the 1920s. Fatio’s celebrated Italian Renaissance style blended beautifully with Palm Beach’s Mediterranean architecture, and he was quickly embraced by high society. Later in the 1930s, Fatio’s style became more modern encompassing a Georgian-inspired classicism, symmetry, and simplicity of forms in keeping with the new modern aesthetic.



Experience the Work of Maurice Fatio

930 South Ocean

Executive Director Amanda Skier and Director of Programming Katie Jacob explore 930 South Ocean Boulevard and delve into the personal life of architect Maurice Fatio and his wife Eleanor.   


Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach

105 CLARENDON 
MARION SYMS WYETH | 1926
Marion Syms Wyeth arrived in Palm Beach in 1919

105 CLARENDON 

MARION SYMS WYETH | 1926

Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach


Other architects also had a significant influence on Palm Beach’s charter. Marion Syms Wyeth arrived in Palm Beach in 1919 after graduating from Princeton, where he was trained in the Beaux-Arts style. He designed houses in a variety of architectural styles, including Spanish, Mediterranean, Southern style and Modernist Contemporary.


Experience the Work of Marion Sims Wyeth

181 Clarendon

Executive Director Amanda Skier and Director of Programming Katie Jacob discuss Palm Beach's response to aqua alta in visiting Marion Syms Wyeth's 181 Clarendon, one of the first homes in town to be elevated.


Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach

17 Golfview Road

Join Executive Director Amanda Skier and Director of Programming Katie Jacob as they journey back to a period early in Marion Sims Wyeth with his design for E. F. Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post's Horgacito.   


Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach

174 Via Del Lago

This week, Executive Director Amanda Skier and Director of Programming Katie Jacob discuss Marion Sims Wyeth's Depression-era estate Southwood, one of Palm Beach's largest landmarked properties still intact.


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Marion Sims Wyeth Homes for sale

HOWARD Major, the Spanish style of Mizner’s architecture, Palm Beach historic homes

HOWARD MAJOR

Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach


Howard Major, a graduate of the Pratt Institute, arrived in Palm Beach in 1925. He was less enchanted with the Spanish style of Mizner’s architecture, and more interested in the Georgian style of the British West Indies, which he believed was better suited to Palm Beach’s tropical climate. Interestingly, Major’s first commission featured Mizneresque details, but later transformed in a tropical, classical Georgian design, which later became his signature style.

In the 1930s, Major’s style reflected the evolution to lighter more tranquil colors and more contemporary forms.

8 SOUTH LAKE TRAIL | CASA BIENVENIDA
JOHN VOLK | 1938 John Volk arrived in Palm Beach in 1926.

8 SOUTH LAKE TRAIL | CASA BIENVENIDA

JOHN VOLK | 1938

Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach


John Volk, born in Austria, and educated at Columbia University and the Beaux-Arts Institute in New York, arrived in Palm Beach in 1926. He and his partner Gustav Maas initially embraced the Mizner style of Spanish architecture, but in later years his residences and commercial buildings reflected varying styles, including Italianate, Regency and Modernist.


Experience the Work of John Volk

252 El Bravo Way

 We'll explore the works of Palm Beach architects and how they have shaped the character of the town.

In visiting 252 El Bravo Way, Executive Director Amanda Skier and Director of Programming Katie Jacob discover the HERstory of an early John Volk design.


Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach

John Volk Homes for Sale

HOWARD Major, the Spanish style of Mizner’s architecture, Palm Beach historic homes

HOWARD MAJOR

Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach


Howard Major, a graduate of the Pratt Institute, arrived in Palm Beach in 1925. He was less enchanted with the Spanish style of Mizner’s architecture, and more interested in the Georgian style of the British West Indies, which he believed was better suited to Palm Beach’s tropical climate. Interestingly, Major’s first commission featured Mizneresque details, but later transformed in a tropical, classical Georgian design, which later became his signature style.

In the 1930s, Major’s style reflected the evolution to lighter more tranquil colors and more contemporary forms.

320 EL VEDADO 
CLARENCE MACK | 1936 Mack’s designs large-scaled floor plans to meet of modern life.

320 EL VEDADO 

CLARENCE MACK | 1936

Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach


Clarence Mack, born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1888, studied Renaissance architecture in Europe before arriving in Florida in 1935. Mack combined his experience as a designer and a builder of chateau-style homes with the knowledge he acquired during his travels, to create grand estates in the Georgian and classical French styles.


Mack’s designs are inspired by tradition, but featured large-scaled floor plans to meet the demands of modern life. He is best known for his gran Regency style estates.


Clarence Mack Homes for sale

Experience the Work of Belford Shoumate

162 Peruvian Ave

Executive Director Amanda Skier and Director of Programming Katie Jacob continue an exploration of Belford Shoumate’s career and his progression as an architect in the Town of Palm Beach.


Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach

Belford Shoumate Homes for Sale

Experience the Work of Gene Lawrence

Gene Lawrence

Clifford Eugene Lawrence, Jr. was one of the most prolific architects of Palm Beach's residential and commercial properties from the 1960s to 2013. A native of South Florida, Lawrence opened Lawrence Group Architects at 205 Worth Ave. in 1965. Of the many iconic properties which he designed, some of the most noted are his condominiums homes, including The Reef, Sloans Curve, Sun and Surf, L'Ermitage, The Cove, Regency, Il Lugano and Bellaria. He was also instrumental in the redesign of the Palm Beach Biltmore's transformation from hotel to condominiums.


Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach

The Iconic Reef Condominium

The Reef Condominium, designed in the modern architectural style to take advantage of the location with the Atlantic to the east, Phipps Park to the north, and Lake Worth to the east.  The building's design is characterized by its all white structure of horizontal and vertical elements, modern sloping buttresses rising towards the sky and traversed by cantilevered horizontal balconies. The Reef was recently awarded landmark status by the Palm Beach Preservation Foundation.


Courtesy of the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach

Reef Atriums

The Atrium Building features the main entrance and opens to an a beautiful outdoor atrium with plants and reflecting pools. As one takes the elevator to the higher floors, the hallway opens to an open air atrium walkway leading to the individual homes. The all white modern structure of the atrium, enhanced by bright light during the day, contrasts beautifully with the soaring palm trees, green plantings and reflecting pools below lending a note of tranquility, serenity and modernism.

Palm Beach Preservation Foundation, Palm Beach, FL

Today, Palm Beach retains its original charm and gracious elegance thanks to the efforts by the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, which is dedicated to the preservation of the historic, architectural and cultural heritage of Palm Beach. PalmBeachPreservation.org

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