The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 35

Women For Veda Page C8 SECTION i. By MARY SEMPEPOS courts and downstairs there were a group of shops. Five years ago the maisonettes were demolished and a new set of shop buildings constructed. Singer and his wife once lived in the easternmost apartment, the present site of Lanvin. Tickets for today's tour are $10 and may be purchased at the Society of the Four Arts Library.

Buses will begin leaving the Library area shortly before neon and at frequent intervals thereafter until 3:30 p.m. Gaiden Club members request that ladies do not wear spike heels. Other stops on the tour include: the Major Alley homes of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stott, Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Leberman, Mrs. Winona Hunt, and Mrs.

Hertha May Miller. Also the residences of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Dryer Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph K.Demers and Mr. and Mrs. Horace C. Flanigan.

The "Palm Beach Cookbook" will be on sale at the Everglades Club and in the Four Arts Gardens. Proceeds from both the book sales and tour tickets will benefit educational projects of the Garden Club including complete maintenance of the Four Arts Demonstration Gardens and assistance to Pine Jog Conservation Education Center. Post Staff Writer It was once nothing but a swamp. And it almost became a convalescent hospital. Today, the Everglades Club on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach is status plus.

A visit there is an escape into elegance. You can go there today and see for yourself. The Everglades Club is one of several stops scheduled on the Garden Club of Palm Beach's annual House and Garden Day Tour. In the early 1900's, a hermit known as "Alligator Joe," lived where the Everglades Club now stands. His only neighbors were the alligators which swarmed in the murky area.

Later, in 1918, Paris Singer decided to build a hospital for recuperating World War I officers. He asked Addison Mizner to design it. But the war ended shortly after, and instead of a hospital, a club was planned. People liked the idea and soon there were requests for apartments. Singer had maisonettes constructed east of where the main club now stands.

The apartments were on the second floor overlooking tennis The Boca Scene Page C13 SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1970: 18 PAGES It 9 1 5 i Ti Of A The Everglades Club Patio i of- 13 55 1 5 Of Hallway View Of Lush Gardens Area I rn imp S3rP -to Il GSsHb 5 if 0 i i i Staff Photos by Ed Slater 0 8 The "Orange Garden" Has A Special Sliding Roof.