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Addison Mizner Papers
Collection
Identifier: AM.00
Scope and Contents
The collected papers on Addison Mizner includes letters, manuscripts, rare books, and scrapbooks. A significant part of this collection are telegrams and letters towards the end of Mizner’s life in 1933. Many telegrams are from his brother Wilson, who lived in Los Angeles at the time, and other friends who were concerned about the state of Mizner’s failing health. There are also notes from clients Gurnee Munn, Amy Phipps, and Eva Stotesbury. Mizner wrote many detailed letters to...
Dates:
1849 - 1942
Found in:
Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
Barbara Hoffstot Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BH.00
Scope and Contents
The Barbara Hoffstot collection preserves her efforts to create a historic preservation commission and community in Palm Beach, Florida, throughout the 1970s-1980s. It includes original and reproduction photographic material of her photographic survey of Palm Beach historic properties, as well as reports and personal correspondence. In addition, the collection includes the original records of National Register for Historic Places nomination forms for properties on Palm Beach created by...
Dates:
1972 - 1995
Found in:
Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
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
Found in:
Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
Bert Morgan Photography Collection
Collection
Identifier: BMP-00
Scope and Contents
This collection contains black and white and color negatives, developed photographs, and film strips taken by the photographer Bert Morgan in Palm Beach, Florida spanning from the 1930s-1970s. The contents of this collection were donated to the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach. The subjects of these photographs include people, private clubs, private residences, golf courses, restaurants, shops, and hotels. While a majority of the photos were taken in Palm Beach, there's a small amount...
Dates:
1918 - 1985
Found in:
Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
Boalt Florida Real Estate Collection
Collection
Identifier: BFR-00
Scope and Contents
The Boalt Florida Real Estate Collection (1944-1982, undated) contains realtor ephemera, including brochures, pamphlets, price listings, and correspondence related to condominiums, apartment buildings, planned communities, and residences in the Palm Beach County and greater South Florida region. Also included are plat maps as well as city and county maps for regions throughout Florida, mainly along the east coast. The collection also contains some records containing real estate information...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1944-1984, undated
Found in:
Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
Bradley's Beach Club Records
Collection
Identifier: BC.00
Scope and Contents
This collection contains financial records, correspondence, and ephemera from The Beach Club, which was operated by E.R. Bradley from 1898-1945.
Dates:
1925 - 1945
Found in:
Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
Christina Orr-Cahall Papers
Collection
Identifier: CO-00
Scope and Contents
The Christina Orr-Cahall papers (1977-1993) contain the records documenting Orr-Cahall's academic and curatorial work on Addison Mizner. Materials include slides, negatives, and personal correspondence. The collection also contains communication with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, communication with Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach staff, and a copy of the Norton Museum's publication "Addison Mizner: Architect of Dreams and Realities." The main projects within...
Dates:
1977 - 1993
Found in:
Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
Clarke Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: CF-00
Scope and Contents
The Clarke Family Papers (1841-2002) contains Clarke family documents pertaining to the Clarke v. Clarke legal proceedings, letters, ephemera, and the logbook for the yacht the Providencia. The dates of this collection range from the 1840s to the 2002, with the bulk of this collection occuring pre-1916.
Dates:
1841 - 2002
Found in:
Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
Eugene Lawrence Collection
Collection
Identifier: EL.00
Scope and Contents
The Eugene Lawrence Collection contains architectural photographs, renderings, and newspaper clippings of and relating to properties designed and built by Eugene Lawrence and the Lawrence group between 1965-2013. Properties are both residential and commercial, and center in Palm Beach, Florida, although Lawrence did design buildings in other locations within the Palm Beach County, Florida region.
Dates:
1960 - 2010
Found in:
Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
Frederick Herpel Architectural Collection
Collection
Identifier: FH-00
Scope and Contents
This collection includes mostly architectural drawings done by Gosman, Volk, Gottfried, Bennet, Bell, Stone, Wyeth and other small architectural groups. The collection also is home to a few photographs, pencil renderings, and correspondence within the architectural rolls. Both residential and commercial plans exist within the collection. The location of the projects are mostly in Palm Beach, but Jupiter, West Palm Beach, Vero Beach, North Palm, Georgia, Virginia and New Jersey are also...
Dates:
1936 - 1996
Found in:
Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
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