Notice the property owned by Pierre DeLanux and Alice DeLamar. The North side is where Osceola Way is now. Also, Albee Way has been renamed Ocean Terrace

Pierre DeLanux was a French Diplomat and writer whose wife, Eyre de Lanux, was known for her Art Deco designed lacquer furniture. Bisexual, it is said she had affairs with Pierre Drieu La Rochelle and Louis Aragon as well as Natalie Barney

Alice DeLamar was the lesbian heiress to Joseph Raphael De Lamar. She was an important supporter of the arts, helping fund plays by Mercedes de Acosta. DeLamar also donated some of her land in Palm Beach to the Audubon Society in the 1960s. She had an Art Gallery on Worth Ave that promoted up-an-coming artist

Her oceanfront estate in Palm Beach, just south of Southern Blvd along the area now known as Billionaire's row, is noted on Sheet #30 by Brockway

Sheet 4 small low res scan

Reef Rd. on the North and Merrain Rd. on the South. Lake Worth to the Atlantic Ocean

Includes the North Shore Addition, Cayuga Estates, Ocean Terrace and the Walton Tract. The Sailfish Club is also on this sheet

On many of the lots the owner's name and price paid were pencilled in by the Realtor


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