Collections

Collection While we typically think of Palm Beach history as grand galas and palatial estates, Palm Beach is built on the stories and memories of the people who call this island home. ⁠The Palm Beach Community History Collection is made up of pieces donated by individuals who participated in the Preservation Foundation’s Community Archiving Day […]

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 […]