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...

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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.

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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.

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...

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Architectural drawings by Henry Harding encompass his work primarily in Palm Beach, the Maisonettes in Ocean Ridge, and the Village of Golf in Boynton Beach. Artwork by Harding consists of renderings filed in a scrapbook that were noted as, “pre-1955 Jobs Journal folio of pictures and plans for presentations”. Photographic material includes documentation of Harding projects throughout Palm Beach and Port Royal, Naples.

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Architectural drawings by John Volk encompass his work in Palm Beach, South Florida, the Bahamas, and throughout the United States. Artwork by Volk or draftsmen include renderings of many of these projects. Photographic materials extensively document Volk’s career and include personal photographs of Volk as a young man, with his wife Jane Volk, and social events in Palm Beach. Printed material includes periodicals that feature the work of Volk.

Scope and Contents Architectural drawings by Marion Sims Wyeth encompass his work primarily in Palm Beach, South Florida, and projects throughout the United States and the Bahamas. The drawings are by Wyeth & King, and later Wyeth, King, and Johnson. Artwork by Wyeth includes watercolors painted in Italy circa 1912-1915. A sub-series of this collection includes renderings created by William Johnson, partner at the firm, of note are studies of the statues of Diana and Actaeon at the Norton Museum of Art....

Scope and Contents The Maurice Fatio Papers (1915-2015) contain photographs and records from the architectural firm Treanor & Fatio, of which Maurice Fatio was a partner. These records include detailed commission documents, including catalog records of drawings completed, project and owner names, commission/job numbers, addresses, and pen and ink renderings. Records also include b/w photographs taken of the properties at the time of their construction in the 1920s-1940s. This collection also...