National Historic Landmark-Wharton Esherick

National Historical Landmark- Wharton Esherick, House and Studio

From 1926 to 1966, this was the home and workplace of Wharton Esherick (1887-1970), an artist and craftsman who applied the principles of modern sculpture to all his work, including furniture and architectural ...

National Historic Landmark-Ephrata Cloister

National Historical Landmark-Ephrata Cloister

Erected between 1740 and 1746, this group of buildings shows a strong German architectural influence.

The cloister is part of a self-sufficient community founded by a German Pietist mystic in 1732.

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National Historic Landmark-Emmanuel Episcopal Church

National Historical Landmark-Emmanuel Episcopal Church

Designed by one of America's premier architects, Henry H. Richardson, Emmanuel Episcopal Church is a small and simple religious structure that is representative of his ecclesiastical buildings.

Not known as a church architect, Richardson died soon ...

Tabernacle Baptist Church

This church was founded in 1893 as Mount Olive Baptist Church. In 1894, the first public black school in West Palm Beach was organized and held classes in the church through 1896. Built in 1925, this Neo-Romanesque Revival style structure ...

St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church - West Palm Beach

Organized by the Rev. Charles Long, Sr. in 1900, St. Paul is the oldest church in Pleasant City. As membership grew, the congregation built a small church and named it Gethsemane. When African American families were forced to move from ...

Pine Ridge Hospital (Private)

Harvey and Clarke, an architectural firm responsible for 7 million dollars worth of new construction in South Florida between 1921 and 1925, designed Pine Ridge Hospital in 1923. It was the only area hospital that admitted blacks during segregation. In ...

Old Pleasant City Elementary School

One of two black schools in West Palm Beach, Pleasant City Elementary School began on the first floor of the Mount Parnassis Odd Fellows Hall. Constructed in 1914, this was the only building in the Pleasant City area designed by ...

The Mickens House (Private)

The Mickens House was built in 1917. Alice Frederick Mickens rose to prominence as a promoter of higher education for blacks. She was chosen Outstanding Woman of the Century at the American Negro Emancipation Convention in 1963 and entertained such ...

Industrial High School

When Industrial High opened in 1914, it was the first African American high school in Palm Beach County and housed grades one through twelve. The last class graduated in 1950 when a new school, Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, was opened. ...

Hurricane of 1928 Mass Burial Site Historical Marker

On September 16, 1928, a hurricane came ashore near the Jupiter Lighthouse and traveled west across Palm Beach County to Lake Okeechobee, Many of the 1,800 to 3,000 fatalities occurred when the Lake Okeechobee dike collapsed, flooding the populated south ...