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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…

Marjorie and E. F. Hutton commissioned Wyeth to build their new home on Golfview Road. Hutton wanted to develop the street further and enlisted Wyeth to create a series of speculative homes located on every other lot. Hogarcito was designed in the…

Wyeth was inspired to design his personal Spanish Courtyard residence during a trip to Spain, naming his home Tre Fontaine. True to its name, Wyeth’s home had three low fountains centered on the front door and placed on an east west access through…

In 1924, Clarence Geist, who made his fortune in utilities, commissioned Wyeth to build opposite of Hogarcito. The Spanish Baroque Style home is named La Claridad, meaning “clarity” and is the most ornate house on Golfview Road. In 1948, the house…

Designed in 1924 for Frederick S. Wheeler, the Chairman of the American Can Company, Bienestar, which means “Wellbeing,” was one of Wyeth’s early Mediterranean Revival style designs. In the 1980s Bienestar was saved from demolition when developer and…

Designed in 1925, the Wyeth Building was mixed use. The Charles G.V. Clark Antiques and decorating business was located on the first floor. The second floor was Wyeth’s architectural office and draughting room. The third floor had a small apartment…

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…

Wyeth made two important contributions to Palm Beach’s oldest church Bethesda-by-the-Sea. He designed a Spanish courtyard house in 1924, which was later sold to the church in 1929 to become the rectory, or home of the priest. The Rectory was…

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…