A house designed by Maurice Fatio was built in 1925, purchased in 1935 by Chicago industrialist and art collector Ralph Norton, and redesigned by Marion Sims Wyeth in the Monterey Revival style. In 1941, Ralph Norton and his first wife, Elizabeth, founded the Norton Gallery and School of Art in a Wyeth-designed building. After Elizabeth’s death in 1947, Ralph married sculptor and teacher Ann Weaver in 1948 and had Wyeth design a studio for her on the property. Following Ralph’s death in 1953, Ann remained active as an artist. The property included the house, studio, a two-acre garden with more than 250 species of rare palms, cycads, and tropical plants, and nine of Ann’s monumental megalithic sculptures. In 1977, Ann established Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens to preserve her vision of a symbiotic relationship between art and nature and to ensure public access to the property as a natural sanctuary in an urban area. In 1990, the house and gardens were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Born in Selma, Alabama, in 1905, Ann Vaughan Weaver pursued art from childhood, studied in New York in the 1930s at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League, and the Cooper Union Art School, exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1935, and also studied abroad. She moved to West Palm Beach in 1942 to teach sculpture at the Norton Gallery and School of Art, married Ralph Norton in 1948, and continued a long career with national and international exhibitions after his death. Her progressive style, innovation, and originality earned her the title Master Sculptor. After a leukemia diagnosis in 1977, she took steps to preserve her garden and art collection of thousands of drawings, sketches, and sculptures. She died in West Palm Beach in 1982 and was later buried in Selma. In 2019, she was inducted posthumously into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, and her home was included in the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Artists’ Home and Studios Program.