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The forty-five thousand square foot, one-hundred-and twenty-five room winter home of James P. and Jesse Woolworth Donahue was the largest single-family home Wyeth designed in Palm Beach. Called Cielito Lindo or “A Little Piece of Heaven,” the house…

E.F. Hutton commissioned Wyeth to build the clubhouse and facilities of the Seminole Golf Course, located in Juno Beach. Designed in Spanish revival style, the new club featured an eighteen-hole golf course, swimming pool, tennis courts, and…

The High Point Monument was designed by Wyeth & King Architects in honor of New Jersey war veterans. An earlier version shows more detail than what was realized in the final design.

The Neoclassical Greek Revival style home was designed by Wyeth for Mrs. Frank Shaughnessy. Polly Jessup, who often collaborated with Wyeth was the interior decorator. For the Shaughnessy residence, Wyeth repurposed the two-story U-shaped plan he…

The spacious lakefront estate known as Southwood was designed by Wyeth in 1934. The estate was commissioned by Dr. John A. Vietor and his wife Eleanor Woodward Vietor, a Jell-O heiress, at the cost of $190,000. Wyeth incorporated Monterey and…

Wyeth first worked with Ralph and Elizabeth Norton in 1935, when he transformed their Maurice Fatio designed Mediterranean Revival house on Barcelona Road in West Palm Beach into a Monterey style home. The residence is now the Ann Norton Sculpture…

The first major commission of Wyeth's career was the new Good Samaritan Hospital. Palm Beach conducted extensive fundraising for the new hospital and Wyeth was able to use the funds to build a two story thirty-five bed hospital in the Spanish Revival…

When American Tobacco heiress Doris Duke married James Cromwell, they decided to build a home in Hawaii. She commissioned Wyeth as he had worked on her father and half-brother’s estates. Duke’s home was approximately fourteen-thousand square feet and…

The estate was originally built in 1850 and was known as Point Breeze or Bonaparte Park (Napolean Bonaparte’s brother Count de Survilliers once owned it). Harris Hammon, son of the American Mining Engineer John Hays Hammond, commissioned Wyeth & King…

In 1940 Ralph Hubbard Norton, CEO of the Acme Steel Company, commissioned Wyeth & King to design the Norton Gallery and School of Art (now known as the Norton Museum of Art). The Gallery and School was the first of its kind in South Florida, and…