See inside a Lake Worth castle; set to become next Red Cross Show House

Click title for link to article about the Birthday Cake Castle, right at the southeast corner of 5th Avenue South and South Lakeside. It will be a feature home in March, part of the Red Cross Designer Show House. The project went through the Historic Resource Preservation Board at its last meeting. From the article:

In the process,  the 7,000-square-foot estate, with 52 windows and an octagonal turret, will receive a major makeover from more than 20 local and national interior designers.
Designed by Addison Mizner draftsman G. Sherman Childs, the house was built in 1925 along the Lake Worth waterfront, where 5th Avenue South meets the Intracoastal, just south of Bryant Park. It was the first property included on the Lake Worth Register of Historic Places. (Childs also designed the Lake Worth City Hall.)
Built by local banker Earl Reed for his wife, Florence, in 1925, it didn’t earn its nickname until 1954, when ulta-conservative, anti-Semitic former foreign correspondent Upton Close bought the house as a birthday gift for his wife, Margaret Fretter Nye.
Since Close was tapped out after three divorce settlements, the wealthy Nye had to pay for her own present.

Nice to see one of the city's more important historic properties undergo a much needed renovation project and have it be in the spotlight.