Palm Beach: An Architectural Heritage: Stories in Preservation and Architecture

Description

Palm Beach houses and gardens resplendent with old grandeur yet wonderfully alive for today are the subject of this elegant volume. Featuring 36 award-winning restored or renovated historic homes, the book serves at once as an inspiration for those who would live as did Palm Beach's early residents as well as a model of how one might realise a lasting heritage for our architectural treasures.

The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach is a private, nonprofit membership organisation dedicated to the preservation of the historic, architectural, and cultural heritage of Palm Beach, Florida. Through advocacy initiatives, educational programs, architectural resources, and cultural events, the Foundation's goal is to encourage the community to learn about and save the historic buildings that truly make Palm Beach special.

"Detailing the meticulous restorations of 38 grand estates and public buildings, the elegant tome awes and inspires with images of historic properties that have received the coveted Ballinger Award over the past 30 years." -Palm Beach Post "Palm Beach: An Architectural Heritage, serves asinspiration to any history buff by featuring 38 classic houses and other buildings that have been restored or preserved with a high degree of sensitivity and taste, and which have won the coveted Ballinger Award-presented by the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach to commemorate restoration or renovation that best exemplifies the traditions of Palm Beach's original houses and the architect who designed them." -Palm Beach Post