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Shoumate, Belford (1903-1991)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1903 - 1991

Biography

Belford Shoumate was born in Aberdeen, Ohio. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and worked with architect Joseph Urban in New York City. Shoumate worked in Miami for one year with Carlos B. Schoeppl before coming to Palm Beach. Since the late 1930s, Belford Shoumate has left his architectural imprint, in either design or restoration, on more than 500 buildings of many styles in South Florida, from Bermuda and Colonial to Art Deco. His first Palm Beach commission was the 1937 Art Moderne style “Boat House” on North Lake Way, which was rumored to have won the award for “House of the Future” at the 1939 World’s Fair. Early in his career in Palm Beach, Shoumate designed and built a home and office in Phipps Plaza where he lived and worked until his death in 1991.

Occupations

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

215 Phipps Plaza - Penncastle Apartments

 File
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Property File Collection houses over 3,000 property files that document vital information about the built environment of Palm Beach. The collection is arranged by address and contains brochures, photographs, newspaper articles, historic designaton reports, and other relevant property information. All files can be scanned upon request, although a majority are already digitized.

Dates: 1925 - 1946; Event: Landmark Designation

222 Phipps Plaza

 File
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Property File Collection houses over 3,000 property files that document vital information about the built environment of Palm Beach. The collection is arranged by address and contains brochures, photographs, newspaper articles, historic designaton reports, and other relevant property information. All files can be scanned upon request, although a majority are already digitized.

Dates: 1925 - 1946; Event: Landmark Designation

298 and 300 S. County Rd. - Andover Reed, Storefront for Mr. S Fahs Smith, Bakery Building for Mr. Burwell Smith, 1931 - 1980

 File
Scope and Contents

Photograph lettering/further research on storefronts. Cross reference Shoumate Collection. Copies of architectural drawings of elevations, floor plans, alterations, blueprints of elevations and floor plans. Sketches of sign lettering for at least 3 different businesses.

Dates: 1931 - 1980

325 South Lake Drive - Casa Del Lago

 File
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Property File Collection houses over 3,000 property files that document vital information about the built environment of Palm Beach. The collection is arranged by address and contains brochures, photographs, newspaper articles, historic designaton reports, and other relevant property information. All files can be scanned upon request, although a majority are already digitized.

Dates: circa 1920s-2024

1221 North Lake Way - Boat House

 File
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Property File Collection houses over 3,000 property files that document vital information about the built environment of Palm Beach. The collection is arranged by address and contains brochures, photographs, newspaper articles, historic designaton reports, and other relevant property information. All files can be scanned upon request, although a majority are already digitized.

Dates: circa 1920s-2024

1560 S. Ocean Blvd - Residence of Mrs. H. R. Rea, Lagomar Subdivision, 1929 - 1967

 File
Scope and Contents

Mizner drawings are blueprints, other architects copies, Mizner estate subdivided. See Shoumate Collection Job No. 3-67.

Dates: 1929 - 1967

311/313 S. County Rd - The Brainard Lemon Bvilbing (Building?), building for John Witman, 1928 - 1972

 File
Scope and Contents

Blueprints of additions and alterations, copies of A/C plans, architectural drawings for alterations. Volk Job No. 758, Shoumate Job No. 7-72.

Dates: 1928 - 1972

Belford Shoumate Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BS.00
Scope and Contents

Architectural drawings by Belford Shoumate encompass his work primarily in Palm Beach and South Florida. Many projects are conceptual or renovations and additions to existing structures. Artwork by Shoumate includes pastel renderings of numerous projects, many of which are not identified. Photographic materials include documentation of Shoumate’s work, of note are the Wagner house in West Palm Beach and the MacNichol Manor apartments in Delray Beach.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1937-1985

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Archival Object 9
Collection 1
 
Subject
Architecture 1