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In 1938, Dr. William and Isabel George commissioned a house from Henry Harding. The residence, known as Tranquility, predates he Foundation’s Harding architectural collection (1945-1984) and no drawings of the house are extant. It is believed to be…

The Cultural Center for the Performing Arts would have been located on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard. The center was commissioned by Mary Howe, founder of the Palm Beach fine arts festival and would have included a 31,000-seat theater equipped for…

Bernard Henry Kroger, an American businessman who created the Kroger chain of supermarkets, commissioned Volk to renovate an existing Beaux Art structure into something more innovative and progressive. Volk transformed the building into the Art…

The Clark-Warwick Oldsmobile Dealership was designed by Volk for owners Harper A. Clark Sr. and Harvey S. Warwick. The smooth finish of the building itself, embellished with neon signage and dramatic lighting, reflected the style of the Oldsmobiles…

Twelve years after the Norton Gallery and School of Art opened, Wyeth, King & Johnson designed the markers for Norton Gallery Park, located between South Flagler Drive and South Olive Avenue. They collaborated with the Boynton Landscape Company on…

Wyeth, King & Johnson designed this modern building for Florida Public Utilities, located on Dixie Highway in downtown West Palm Beach.

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…

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…

Built for Sam Stephens, Shoumate envisioned this modern building to have several stories in one of the earlier sketches.

Mt. Vernon Motor Lodge was built for E.B. Walton and R.B. Wagner in the Neocolonial (or Palladian) style. Walton was greatly influenced by elements of President Washington’s famous residence, Mount Vernon--including the two story-porch columns,…