Coastal Evangelist

Raymond Jungles’s redesign of a Palm Beach park will spread the word on native plants.

STEPHEN ZACKS

Phipps Ocean Park is an 18-acre stretch of Palm Beach, Florida, donated to the public in 1948 by the Phipps family, heirs of Carnegie Steel partner Henry Phipps. Concerned by redevelopment on the island, the Phipps family was worried that public access to the beach was being lost. Today, Phipps Ocean Park is owned by Palm Beach County, but it is hidden from the street behind north and south parking lots on either side of a fire station. A row of imported palm trees and a handful of indigenous sable palms are most of what remains of the original dune. When the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach began contemplating improvements to the grounds of the Little Red Schoolhouse, an 1886 one-room school relocated to the park in 1960, where it…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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