Palm Beach Daily News
The large garden boxes that sit outside the Palm Beach Police Department on South County Road will soon bloom with a variety of new environmentally friendly plants.
The project is headed by the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach. The first phase includes removing the existing palm trees from the 18-foot beds, which was done earlier this week by landscape company Total Maintenance Environmental Services.
The foundation will donate the native plants that will replace the palm trees sometime next week, Director of Horticulture Susan Lerner told the Daily News.
Lerner said the landscape design for the boxes is still evolving because the beds are much deeper than what she and the town s grounds maintenance supervisor, John Lawrence, originally thought.
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Elevation project moving forward on Addison Mizner-designed home following legal dispute
Ann Desruisseaux considered de-landmarking the home on South County Road amid a conflict with neighbors, but now is working to raise and restore it.
Palm Beach Daily News
After a long-running dispute with neighbors nearly derailed her efforts to elevate and restore an historic home on South County Road, Ann Desruisseaux is moving forward with renovation plans.
Desruisseaux, who is co-trustee of the Desruisseaux land trust that purchased the Venetian-style home for $24 million in January 2020, earned unanimous approval from the town s Landmarks Preservation Commission last week to make a variety of modifications to the lakefront estate that was designed by Addison Mizner and built in 1923.
1886 Little Red Schoolhouse survives as living history for present, future generations
Marie Penny
Special to the Daily News
Editor s note: This is the final in a monthly series of columns for the season from the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach.
The community that built the Little Red Schoolhouse outgrew the building in 15 years, but for the past 135 years, it has served as an emblem of education. The fact that the frame vernacular structure with a gabled roof still stands is a testament to its endurance. It also tells the story of the community and preservationists who have committed to the longevity of one of the island’s oldest buildings.
Palm Beach Daily News
When the Garden Club of America canceled all its sanctioned shows for 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, Garden Club of Palm Beach President Mary Pressly decided to hit reset because I felt as though our members needed to come together and our community needed uplifting.
She came up with the idea, she told the Daily News, to create a flower show outside as as stand-in for the biennial GCA-sanctioned event that was on tap for this year. That idea will become a reality this weekend when the Garden in Bloom show takes place at the Society of the Four Arts Botanical Gardens and Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden.
Palm Beach Daily News
One of the perks for sellers in Palm Beach’s lost-its-brakes real estate market is this one: Properties that have lingered unsold for many months are finally attracting buyers.
Such was the case this week for a meticulously restored and updated landmarked house at 9 Golfview Road, which had sought a buyer for more than three years.
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Howard Martin Sprock III, who has owned other properties in town, paid $8.25 million for the house via a deed recorded Wednesday.
First listed for sale in January 2018, the house overlooks the Everglades Golf Course on a private street immediately south of Worth Avenue. The property has four bedrooms, a grandly scaled living room and 7,050 square feet of living space, inside and out.