Dwight James Baum

Dwight James Baum (June 24, 1886 – December 14, 1939) was an American architect most active in New York and in Sarasota, Florida. His work includes Cà d'Zan, the Sarasota Times Building, Sarasota County Courthouse (1926), early residences in Temple Terrace, Florida, Sarasota County Courthouse (1927), Pinecroft, West Side YMCA on 63rd Street between Central Park and Columbus Avenue, Columbus Circle (Syracuse, NY) (1934) and Hendricks Memorial Chapel.

Biography

Baum was born in Newville, New York (near Utica) and moved to Syracuse as a young man, eventually graduating from Syracuse University in 1909 with an architecture degree. During the 1920s Florida land boom, Baum designed a half-dozen significant civic buildings and several houses in Sarasota, and at least one residence in Tampa, all in the Mediterranean Revival Style.

In 1926 Baum designed forty two Mediterranean Revival style houses of varying sizes in the City of Temple Terrace, Florida, this is thought to be the largest collection of his work in the Southeast. He also designed Sunset Hill for Mrs. Eugene D. Stocker at Warren, New York in 1923-1924. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Baum's work includes:

Sarasota Times Building, 1925; NRHP-listed Sarasota County Courthouse, 1926; NRHP-listed Early residences in Temple Terrace, Florida, circa 1926 Cà d'Zan, now the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 1927 Sarasota County Courthouse, 1927, NRHP-listed El Vernona Hotel-John Ringling Hotel, Sarasota, 1929 (razed) United States Post Office, Flushing, New York, with William Knowles, 1934 Columbus Circle (Syracuse, NY), 1934

(not chronological) Burns Realty Company-Karl Bickel House (1925, 1933 converted to a residence, 101 N. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL, NRHP-listed El Vernona Apartments-Broadway Apartments, 1133 4th St. Sarasota, FL, NRHP-listed El Vernona Hotel-John Ringling Hotel, 111 N. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL, NRHP-listed Dr. Walter Kennedy House, 1876 Oak St. Sarasota, FL, NRHP-listed Pinecroft, 2336 Kipling Ave. Cincinnati, OH, NRHP-listed Riverdale Presbyterian Church Complex enlargement (1936), 4761-4765 Henry Hudson Parkway New York, NY, NRHP-listed George Schueler House, 76 S. Washington Dr. Sarasota, FL, NRHP-listed Sunset Hill (1923), 102 NY 167 Warren, NY, NRHP-listed US Post Office-Flushing Main, 41-65 Main St. New York, NY, NRHP-listed