Dwight James Baum

Dwight James Baum was an American architect most active in New York and in Sarasota, Florida. His work includes C dZan, the Sarasota Times Building , Sarasota County Courthouse , early residences in Temple Terrace, Florida, Sarasota County Courthouse , Pinecroft, West Side YMCA on 63rd Street between Central Park and Columbus Avenue, Columbus Circle and Hendricks Memorial Chapel.

Baum was born in Newville, New York and moved to Syracuse as a young man, eventually graduating from Syracuse University in 1909 with an architecture degree. He worked for nationally known firms Boring and Tilton and Stanford White before venturing out with his own residential design firm around 1912.

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