Marion Sims Wyeth

Mar-A-Lago

High Point monument

Marion Sims Wyeth  /ˈwaɪ.əθ/ (1889–1982) was an American architect who designed numerous mansions in Florida.

He was born in New York City. Wyeth's father John Allan Wyeth founded in 1882 the New York Polyclinic Hospital^[1] (which became Cabrini Medical Center). His grandfather J. Marion Sims founded the country's first Women's Hospital in 1855 (which is now part of St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital.^[2]

He attended Princeton University and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. There he was awarded the Prix Jean LeClerc in 1913 and the Deuxième Prix Rougevin in 1914.^[3]

Wyeth worked at Carrère & Hastings and moved to Palm Beach, Florida in 1919 where he founded the firm of Wyeth and King with his business partner Frederic Rhinelander King. He was the first Palm Beach architect to be elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.^[4]

Wyeth would design numerous mansions in Palm Beach during its gilded age.

Projects

• Mar-A-Lago, Palm Beach
• Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
• High Point, New Jersey, Monument and associated Grey Rock Inn
• Florida Governor's Mansion
• Shangri La - Doris Duke home in Honolulu

References

1. ^ Wyeth, John Allan (1914). Sabre and scalpel: the autobiography of a soldier and surgeon. p. 464. http://books.google.com/books?id=-ekRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA464. 
2. ^ http://www.nywomenshealth.com/history-obstetrics-gynecology-st-lukes-roosevelt-hospital-new-york.htm
3. ^ Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860-1940 by Robert B. Mackay (Editor), Anthony K. Baker (Editor), Carol A. Traynor (Editor) - W. W. Norton & Company (February 1997) - ISBN 0393038564
4. ^ Tropical Style: Private Palm Beach by Jennifer Ash (Author), Alex McLean (Author) Abbeville Press; 2nd edition (November 1992) ISBN 1558594892

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Name	Wyeth, Marion Sims
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Date of birth	1889
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Date of death	1982
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