[UPDATE] The Red Cross Designer's Show House exhibit ENDS TODAY (Saturday, April 4th)

[UPDATE: This exhibit ends TODAY. You procrastinators have run out of time. Read original post about Mary Lindsey's Special Assignment in The Lake Worth Herald:]

The Lake Worth Herald this week has Part 3 of 3 of Mary Lindsey's Special Assignment on the Lake Worth "Birthday Cake Castle". This last part deals with much of the history surrounding this treasured historical structure. Here is one short excerpt:

     The property changed hands several times but remained intact when G. Sherman Childs, himself a son of Lake Worth Pioneers who trained under Addison Mizner, designed and built the Castle in 1925. It became the “Birthday Cake Castle” in 1954 when then owner Upton Close presented the house to his wife Margaret Fretter Nye. That moniker was indelibly etched into the home and our hearts in the early 1980’s when McMow Art Glass designed and created the famous birthday cake stained glass window. 

There are wonderful pictures and much more information on this exhibit. Mr. Ted Brownstein and his book, Pioneers of Jewell: A Documentary History of Lake Worth’s Forgotten First Settlement (1885-1910), also gets cited in the article.

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Great job, Mary!