More on the Red Cross Designer's Show House: the Lake Worth 'Birthday Cake Castle'

From a story by Christine Davis in the Palm Beach Daily News (aka, The Shiny Sheet), did you know:

     Owned by Scott Levine, La Florentia was originally built by Sherman Childs in 1925. But it received its birthday-cake nickname when past owner Upton Close gave the house to his wife, Margaret Fretter Nye, as a birthday present in 1954. Cakelike qualities include candle-like pillars, icing-like interior swirls of plaster and the stairwell’s famous stained-glass window featuring a cake with candles aglow.
     This year, more than 20 interior designers embellished the house, which offers 52 windows, an impressive stairway, a plethora of stained glass, carved-wood and silver-inlaid doors — and a bona fide turret rising three stories.

IF YOU GO [also from the article]:

What: American Red Cross Designers’ Show House, 1 Fifth Ave S., Lake Worth, benefiting the charity’s Palm Beach Treasure Coast Chapter. Offers self-guided tours of spaces decorated by multiple design firms, plus a boutique.

Open: Through April 4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Sat.; noon-4 p.m. Sun.

General admission: $35.

Information and tickets: Call 650-9133 or visit RedCross.org/PBTC