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Collection of resources compiled and digitized as part of digital exhibition The Styx: Palm Beach’s Historically Black Neighborhood. Materials sourced from the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Archives, Historical Society of Palm Beach County, Library of Congress, and Detroit Public Library. View the exhibit at the following link to learn more about the history and the […]

Biography Polly Jessup was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Jessup moved to Hobe Sound from New York with her husband John Jessup in the 1920s. Although she never received a formal training in interior design, her eye for color, form, and style made her a nationally renowned interior designer whose designs were integral to the gracious […]

Biography Addison Mizner was born in Benicia, California, the seventh of eight children. As a young man, he lived in Central America and Spain which would shape his architectural vocabulary years later. He didn’t follow the typical path towards becoming an architect. After apprenticing with San Francisco architect Willis Polk, he went on to prospect […]

Biography John Volk was born in Graz, Austria, and immigrated to New York City at the age of nine with his family. Volk studied architecture at Columbia University and apprenticed with H.P. Knowles, a Masonic architect in New York. In 1925 he relocated to Florida during the real estate boom, and he opened his own […]

Biography Marion Sims Wyeth (1889-1982) was born in New York City.  He graduated from Princeton University in 1910 and proceeded to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1914. He then furthered his training by working for Bertram Goodhue and Carrère & Hastings.  In 1919, Wyeth relocated to Palm Beach, while maintaining a New York […]