The Belair Historic District lies between South Flagler Drive and South Dixie Highway, bounded by Plymouth Road on the south and Pilgrim Road on the north. The area was part of a Homestead Act land grant given to South Carolina author James Woods Davidson in 1885. Colonel John Huntington Jones of Rhode Island acquired the land and, in 1895, sold it to Richard Hone. Hone, an Englishman, built the first house in what would become the district and used the land as a pineapple plantation. After Hone's mysterious murder, the land passed through a series of sales until William and Sophie Ohlhaber purchased it in 1923. In June that year, Ohlhaber platted the Belair subdivision and built its first house for his family. Many of the historic homes were constructed in the 1920s and early 1930s during the Florida Land Boom, but with the onset of the Great Depression much of the development declined and many lots remained unsold. Entirely residential in character, the district includes Mediterranean Revival, Mission Revival, and wood-frame and masonry vernacular houses. In 1993, the City of West Palm Beach designated Belair as a local historic neighborhood.