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ALFRED BROWNING PARKER FAIA (1916-2011)
Parker was born in Boston. After a severe case of pneumonia, doctors urged a warmer climate; following a year in Atlanta the family settled in Miami in 1925, where his fagther Jack sold real estate, first for Coral Gables developer George Merrick. His mother Jewel stayed central to her son's life, saving scrapbooks of his career, serving as receptionist in his office, and later commissioning her own Coconut Grove house from him.
Parker graduated from Miami Senior High and entered the University of Florida's School of Architecture and Allied Arts in 1934, finishing with honors in 1939. Its director, Rudolph Weaver, became his chief mentor and employer. A 1938 Architectural Forum issue on Frank Lloyd Wright electrified him, and a fan letter in 1939 began a correspondence that lasted until Wright's death; the two finally met in New York through House Beautiful editor Elizabeth Gordon, and Wright later endorsed his fellowship nomination. Parker studied in Stockholm on a scholarship until wartime suspicion forced his return, then spent eight months at the National University of Mexico on a travel fellowship.
During World War II he served in the Navy in Miami, running a drafting and photo lab for naval intelligence. In 1942 he married Martha Ann Gifford, daughter of ecologist John Gifford; their children were Derek, Gifford (Bebe), Robin, Jules (Bo, later a photographer) and Quentin. He opened his Miami practice on January 1, 1946, working from a converted gas station in Coconut Grove, and taught intermittently at Florida. He wrote You and Architecture and gave weekly radio talks for years.
Later marriages were to Jane Britt (1959; daughter Lebritia), Shirley Aronow, and Euphrosyne Nittis (1992). From the 1970s he turned toward solar energy ventures. After Hurricane Andrew he moved to Windsong, his Vermont retreat, then returned in 1998 to teach at Florida as Distinguished Professor. He designed and built eight homes for himself. Parker died in Gainesville FL. The definitive book is Randy Henning's The Architecture of Alfred Browning Parker: Miami's Maverick Modernist.
1942 - Tropical Subsistence Homestead, Dade County FL. Unbuilt. Featured in Miami Herald, June 1942; Miami Herald, January 1950. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1943 - The Farmer Residence, Miami Springs FL. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1943 - The Alfred Browning Parker Residence and Studio, 2921 SW 27th Avenue, Coconut Grove FL. Parker's first house, built largely with his own hands on evenings and Sundays while a naval officer in wartime Miami, using salvaged and scrounged materials. After Parker moved to Royal Road it served as his studio-workshop until 1968. Featured in Architectural Forum, February 1945; Miami Herald, May 1964. Sold in 1977. Later used commercially. Sold in 2023 to Cuprite Properties. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1945 - The Tackaberry Residence, Miami FL. Unbuilt.
1946 - The Holbrook Residence, Gainesville FL. Unbuilt.
1946 - The Alfred Browning Parker Residence, aka the Six-Week Wonder, Gainesville FL. Built by Parker in about six weeks in late summer 1946 while teaching at the University of Florida. 1,450 sq ft put living, dining and kitchen on the ground floor opening to a south garden patio, with three bedrooms above. Parker made all the built-ins and lived there under a year. Featured in American Home, April 1951; House Beautiful, 1946. Sold within a year (1947) to a fellow UF faculty member when Parker returned to Miami. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1946 - Realistic Houses for Georgia, competition entry, GA. Unbuilt.
1947 - The Marsh Residence, Coconut Grove FL. Next to the Hopwood house, built by the clients on their own, with many departures from the drawings.
1947 - The Moore Residence, Gainesville FL.
1947 - The Schlotzhauer Residence, Miami Shores FL.
1947 - The Troetschel Residence, Miami FL.
1947 - The Wood Residence, St. Petersburg FL. Unbuilt.
1948 - The Adams Residence, Elliott Key FL. Unbuilt.
1948 - The William and Dorothy Hopwood Residence, Coconut Grove FL. Parker built the house himself. Featured in Florida Architecture & Allied Arts, July 1948; Florida Architecture, 1950. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1948 - The Ken Keyes Jr. Residence, Miami FL. Includes a painted multicolored cypress mural by Parker abstracting the letter K.
1948 - The Mitchell Residence, Miami FL.
1948 - The Alfred Browning Parker Residence and Studio, second scheme, Coconut Grove FL. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1948 - The Rose Residence, Miami Shores FL.
1948 - The Walter C. Runge Residence, Miami FL. A speculative house that Parker designed and built himself. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1948 - aka Tropex-Pansible Residence, FL. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1948 - The Voltz Residence, Coconut Grove FL.
1949 - The Campbell Residence, Miami FL.
1949 - The Cannell Residence, Coconut Grove FL.
1949 - The Linden R. Chandler Residence, Coconut Grove FL. On the lot east of the Hopwood house; designed and personally built by Parker. Builder: Alfred Browning Parker. Featured in Florida Architecture, 1951.
1949 - Essex Village subdivision, Hialeah FL.
1949 - The Hertzon Residence, Miami Beach FL.
1949 - The Johnson Residence, Bal Harbour FL. Unbuilt.
1949 - The Murphy Residence, Miami FL.
1949 - The Alfred Browning Parker Residence, aka Rocks and Short Pines, Miami FL. Parker's third home, cited as a conceptual precursor of the Gayer house. Photo by Rodney McCay Morgan.
1949 - The Parker-Farkas Residence, Miami Beach FL. Unbuilt.
1949 - The Simmons Residence, Miami FL.
1949 - The Wood Duplex, St. Petersburg FL.
1950 - The Avant Residence I, Coral Gables FL.
1950 - The Caudle Residence, aka A Cave with a View, Cincinnati OH. Unbuilt. A small cabin dug into a hillside, which Parker later saw as a forerunner of his Vermont house, Windsong. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1950 - The Heller Residence, Fort Myers FL.
1950 - The Litowitz Residence, Miami Beach FL. Additions by Parker in 1961.
1950 - The Marks Residence, Miami Shores FL.
1950 - The Alfred Browning Parker Residence, aka Pace Setter 1954, aka Royal Road, Coconut Grove FL. Parker's fourth house and an early masterwork, which House Beautiful made its 1954 Pace Setter in the huge November 1953 issue, with Wright himself writing captions. Wright visited in 1955. An earlier 1948 scheme combining house and cantilevered workshop was abandoned. Featured in House Beautiful, November 1953; House Beautiful, January 1954; House Beautiful, February 1954; House Beautiful, March 1954; House Beautiful, April 1954; Florida Architecture, 1954-55. Parker sold it in 1962 before building his Gables Estates house; has been badly modified. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1950 - The Smith Residence, Miami Beach FL.
1950 - The Steele Residence, Miami FL. Unbuilt.
1950 - The Jan Streate Residence, Miami FL. 1,500 sq ft that opens almost entirely onto its walled lot, with one wing for living areas and the other for bedroom and study raised off the ground for cooling. Parker regarded it as the conceptual forerunner of the Gayer house, Jewel-in-the-Treetop and Woodsong. The client wrote frequently about Parker's houses for her paper. Featured in House & Garden, August 1952. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1950 - The Wadsworth Residence, Coral Gables FL. Unbuilt.
1950 - The Wertz Residence, Miami FL.
1951 - The Beck Residence, Coral Gables FL.
1951 - The Dan B. Caudle Residence, 6801 Granada Boulevard, Coral Gables FL. Additions by Parker in 1952. A Coral Gables historic landmark. Enlarged and restored 2016-2022.
1951 - The Cayce Residence, Lower Matecumbe Key FL. Unbuilt. Drawn for a Florida Keys lot, the house was lifted on triangular stilts above a possible storm surge.
1951 - The Langer Residence, Coral Gables FL.
1951 - The Rice Residence, Miami FL. Parker's first notable use of angular, 60-degree hexagonal geometry.. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1951 - The Titleman Residence, Miami FL.
1951 - The Weiner Residence I, Miami FL.
1952 - The Johnson Residence, Princeton NJ.
1952 - The Josephson Residence, Hollywood FL.
1952 - The Richard Litsey Residence, South Miami FL. An owner-built house: Litsey, an airline pilot, built it himself to Parker's plans after reading about Parker building his own home. Featured in House Beautiful, November 1956. About four years after completion the Litseys added a third bedroom and second bath. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1952 - Pine Tree Estates subdivision, Miami FL.
1952 - The Todd Residence, Coral Gables FL.
1952 - The Tucker Residence, Coral Gables FL.
1953 - The Bert Friedman Residence, Coconut Grove FL. A compact 850-sq-ft rectangular one-story house, one room deep, for a bachelor who wanted space for books, hi-fi, records, entertaining, a shaded terrace, carport and guest room. Built by E. T. Rourke. Featured in Miami Daily News, October 1954; House Beautiful Building Manual, 1956. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1953 - The Don Gayer Residence, Coconut Grove FL. Parker saw it as a step between the Streate house and his mother's Jewel-in-the-Treetop next door. The house came through Hurricane Andrew in 1992 largely unharmed. Featured in House Beautiful, January 1957; Florida Architecture International, 1958-59. In the early 1960s Parker, at Gayer's request, replaced the carport with a larger kitchen. Gayer still lived there in 1994. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1953 - The Jenkins Residence, Miami FL.
1953 - The Schindler Residence, Miami FL.
1953 - The Stern Residence, Coconut Grove FL.
1954 - The Battersea Corporation speculative residence, Coral Gables FL. Unbuilt.
1954 - The Belk Jr. Residence, Charlotte NC. Unbuilt.
1954 - The Carmona Residence, Miami FL.
1954 - The Chepens Residence, West Palm Beach FL. Photo by Alfred Browning Parker.
1954 - The Gordon Residence, Miami Beach FL.
1954 - The Joseph and Henrietta Mass Residence, Palm Beach FL. Builder: Butler & Oenbrink. Landscape by Parker. Featured in House Beautiful, March 1957; Florida Architecture, 1957. Parker added a kitchen in 1961. Parker enlarged the kitchen with a 250-sq-ft bay toward the pool in 1961. The family sold the house in 1963 amid financial trouble; a later seasonal owner let it decay, and a fourth owner destroyed it. An approximate replica was built in 1963 by another client in Ladue, Missouri. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1954 - The Pinecrest Manor subdivision, Coconut Grove FL.
1954 - The Randall Residence, Coral Gables FL.
1954 - The Springs Residence Natatorium addition, Fort Mill SC.
1954 - The Weiner Residence II, Miami FL. Photo by Carlos I. Morales.
1954 - The Wood Apartment, St. Petersburg FL.
1955 - The Andreas Residence, Golden Beach FL. Unbuilt.
1956 - The Dora Ewing Residence, Coconut Grove FL. Builder: Albert Hallquist. Featured in House Beautiful, November 1958; Look, May 1959; Florida Architect, June 1959. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1955 - The Samuel and Ann Lee Marko Residence, Coconut Grove FL. Featured in House Beautiful, November 1956. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1955 - The Piana Residence, Biscayne Gardens FL.
1956 - The Abe Leo Cohen Residence, Palm Beach FL. The tall entry foyer held a 1957 gold-leaf and paint mural on cypress panels by Wright apprentice Eugene Masselink. Builder: Wiggs & Maale Construction Company. Featured in Florida Architecture, 1960. Sold by Cohen's widow in 1980; the new owners destroyed it in October 1980. The Masselink mural was removed beforehand and sent to the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Scottsdale. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1957 - The Russ Kitchens Residence, aka Tha-Wa-Ta, South Dade FL. 1,250 sq ft with living-dining, kitchen, bedroom and bath, nicknamed Tha-Wa-Ta from the owner's refrain that this was the way to live. Builder: Charles Thomas. Featured in House Beautiful, November 1958; Miami Herald, December 1958. Destroyed. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1956 - The Moynahan Residence, Bay Point, Miami FL.
1956 - The Rinker Residence, Coconut Grove FL.
1956 - The Schmidt Residence, Miami FL.
1957 - The Dr. J. Albert Avrack Residence, Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. Unbuilt.
1957 - The Belin Residence I, Miami FL.
1957 - The W. T. Collins Residence, Fort Lauderdale FL. On the Cordelia River.
1957 - The Jaime Garza Residence, Mexico City, Mexico. Unbuilt. Parker visited the site; the client approved, but his wife wanted something more American and vetoed it. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1957 - The Ernest Hoggarth Residence, Miami FL. A modest 1,100-sq-ft one-bedroom retirement house in an open L, with kitchen and dining at the crook. Builder: Avant Construction Company. Featured in Miami Herald, March 1961. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1957 - The Graham Miller Residence, aka Pace Setter 1959, Coconut Grove FL. House Beautiful's 1959 Pace Setter, Parker's second, and one of his rare inward-looking plans. About 3,100 sq ft plus 1,600 sq ft of screened space. Builder: Albert Hallquist. Featured in House Beautiful, February 1959; House & Home, November 1959. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1957 - The Jewel Parker Residence, aka A Jewel-in-the-Treetop, Coconut Grove FL. Two pavilions, a 20-ft-square main living unit and a 16-ft-square guest house, joined by terraces and a carport beneath a banyan tree. Parker's mother lived there until her death in 1968. Built by Parker with Charles Thomas. Featured in House Beautiful, November 1957; Architecture for Florida Living, 1968. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1957 - The Prosan Residence, Miami FL. Unbuilt.
1957 - The Tench Residence, scheme I, aka Tench Tentative, Gainesville FL. Unbuilt.
1957 - The Benmont Tench Jr. Residence, 321 NW 23rd Street, Gainesville FL. After a bold triangular two-story first scheme (the Tench Tentative) proved too radical for the client, Parker produced a long single-story plan on a 3.5-ft module in 1960; it was deferred while Tench served in Panama and finally built, slightly altered, with occupancy in late 1967. The family's son Benmont Tench III and Tom Petty's band Mudcrutch rehearsed here and recorded a 1973 demo in the living room. Builder: Tassinari Construction Company. Pool added in 2021. Sold in 2022. Photo by Randy Henning.
1957 - The Spalding Residence, Palatka FL.
1958 - The Bassett Residence, Miami FL.
1958 - The Barney Diamond Residence, Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. One of six custom Freeport houses Parker designed for Groves's partners and friends; unbuilt.
1959 - The Bruce Alspach Residence, Key Biscayne FL. A cypress-clad bayfront house lifted off the ground so storm tides could pass beneath, which also captured bay views and breezes. Parker later recycled the abandoned first scheme for the unbuilt Kearney residence in New Jersey. Builder: Gunn and Gunn. Destroyed (date not given). Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1959 - Arboriform, a Simpson Project, Dobbs Ferry NY. Unbuilt.
1959 - The Belin Residence II, aka Belin Bay Tower, Coconut Grove FL. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1959 - The Condon Residence, Boca Raton FL. Unbuilt.
1959 - The Dubrin Residence, Miami FL.
1959 - The Robert Graham Residence, Andros Island, Bahamas. Unbuilt. A vacation house for New York art dealer Robert Graham, conceived as an enlarged version of the Swayze design after Graham heard about that project. . Construction drawings were completed but it was never built. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1959 - The Wallace and Georgette Groves Residence, Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. Home of Freeport's founder, built for a large family that entertained often: a two-story house nearly 200 feet long but only about 30 feet deep, so every main room opened to both the ocean and the pool patio for cross ventilation. Builder: Marine Construction Company. Sold after Wallace Groves died in 1983; destroyed in 2003 by an owner who found the ceilings too low. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1959 - The Groves Residence, MD. Unbuilt. A second, larger house for Groves designed alongside the Freeport house with a similar program and layout, but with a two-story living room, much stone and stucco, and steeper hipped roofs, sited on a hilltop above the road. Construction drawings were completed; not built.
1959 - The Jack Hayward Residence, Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. Built for Jack Hayward, Wallace Groves's investment partner in the Freeport venture, on the oceanfront parcel next to the Groves house. Photo by Mark Da Cunha,
1959 - The Sam Kusworm Residence, Biscayne Point, Miami FL. Unbuilt.
1959 - The Daniel Ludwig Residence, Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. Partially built. Freeport house for shipping magnate and Groves associate Daniel Ludwig; construction began but was abandoned.
1959 - The McConnell Residence, Greenwood Lake NY. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1959 - The Charles and Lisa Menefee Residence, aka Yaupon, 6119 Bears Bluff Road, Wadmalaw Island SC. The Menefees found Parker through House Beautiful and got a modest, single-story, one-room-deep house of under 2,000 sq ft. Still in the Menefee family as of 2010. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1959 - The Rutkin Residence, Perrine FL. Unbuilt.
1959 - The Simpson Residence, Dobbs Ferry NY. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1959 - The John Cameron Swayze Residence, Ile St. Martin, Leeward Islands. Unbuilt. A vacation house for NBC newsman and Timex spokesman John Cameron Swayze: a 28-foot-square two-level open pavilion set at 45 degrees on a 46-foot-square raised terrace, leaving four triangular sitting areas. Parker visited the site in April 1959; Swayze was too busy to build. The scheme was reworked for Robert Graham on Andros and for speculative houses at Navy Island, and informed Parker's tropics article in House Beautiful. Featured in House Beautiful, January 1964. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1959 - The Woronzow Residence, Coconut Grove FL. Unbuilt.
1960 - The Corliss Residence, Stuart FL.
1960 - The Art and June du Rivage Residence, Huntington NY. Scaled-down version of the 1960 Tench scheme.
1961 - The Arthur and Joy Epstein Residence, 5555 North Bayshore Drive, Miami FL. Sold in 2002 to Alan and Sherna Brody, who restored it. Photo by Alan Brody.
1960 - The Gann Residence, South Miami FL.
1960 - The Harold and Wilma Good Residence, Sea Ranch Lakes FL. Winter home for a General Motors executive and his wife (of the Smucker family) on a flat suburban lot. 2,700sf. Parker also did the siting, landscape, built-ins, furniture and three geometric rugs. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1960 - The Eric Haight Residence, Bedford NY. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1960 - The Leopold Residence, Ladue MO. Unbuilt. The master plan added a football-shaped pool, cascading terraces, a bridge to an island, and a bomb shelter. Delays and steel costs ended it; in 1964 the clients hired Fort Lauderdale architect Dan Duckham for the house they built. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1960 - The Lewyt Residence, Sands Point NY. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1960 - The Allen S. and Adele Manus Residence, 144 Wells Road, Palm Beach FL. For a Canadian promoter who had owned the Lucayan Beach Hotel, a relatively small but lavishly finished two-story house of travertine and Honduran mahogany under jade-green glazed tile. Builder: C. G. Warner Construction. Featured in Florida Architecture, 1963. Sold in 1979 to Jack Stupp. Destroyed in 2008. Photo by Black-Baker.
1960 - The Rappaport Residence, Miami Beach FL.
1960 - The Spalding Terrace House and Pool, Palatka FL.
1960 - The Tanner Residence, Coconut Grove FL. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1961 - The Albert Geoff and Marie Wade Residence, aka Quail High, Village of Golf FL. Parker applied the Quail High motif to dishes, linens and stationery. Featured in Home Fort Lauderdale, 2009. Photo by Randy Henning.
1961 - The Biegelsen Residence, Hollywood FL. Similar inward-looking atrium concept to the House of Minimum Maintenance but larger. Status unknown.
1967 - The Nicholas C. and Helen Lucken Residence, 806 Dancy Avenue, Savannah GA. Commissioned 1961. Still in the Lucken family as of 2010. Photo by Bill Bennett.
1961 - Popular Mechanics House of Minimum Maintenance, Palm Beach Gardens FL. Commissioned by Popular Mechanics as a national promotion for a durable three-bedroom house, and named its House of the Year in September 1962. A smaller cousin of the Pace Setter 1959 (Miller) house, all rooms face a sunlit central atrium under a pyramidal roof about 62 feet square that sweeps up to a skylit peak Parker refused to cut. . Featured in Popular Mechanics, September 1962; Florida Architect, September 1962; House Beautiful, August 1963; Miami Herald, September 1962. First owner turned the grassed atrium into a putting green. A Houston adaptation was reportedly built. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1961 - The Unger Residence, Miami Beach FL.
1961 - The Walker Residence, Perrine FL. Unbuilt.
1961 - The William Williams Residence, Miami FL. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1965 - The John Richard (Buck) and Mikal Fulp Residence, Anderson SC. Called Parker's best built work that was never published: a nearly 12,000 sq ft crescent of concrete, fieldstone, copper and wood. Built by Yeargin Construction. Sold in 1983 to a Texas savings and loan; bought in 1985 by I. M. and Julie Ibrahim, who kept it largely unchanged but added a detached garage for car collection matching the original materials. Parker-designed entrance gates and walls added early 1970s. Reflecting pool at entry later changed to planter. Photo by Jeff Sanders.
1962 - The Albert Gottlieb Residence, Ladue MO. Loosely duplicates Parker's earlier Mass residence in Palm Beach, built without Parker's supervision.
1962 - The Lake Residence, Fort Lauderdale FL. Spread-out collage of interconnected octagons on a prominent site above the New River.
1962 - The Alfred Browning Parker Residence, aka Pace Setter 1965, aka Gables Estates, 140 Arvida Parkway, Coral Gables FL. Parker's fifth home, built after he won an appeal to the City Commission over the Coral Gables architectural board's objections to its height and non-Mediterranean style. House Beautiful's Pace Setter 1965 and regarded as one of his masterworks. Featured in House Beautiful, May 1965; Miami Herald, April 1965. Parker sold the house in 1966 to James A. Ryder. Sold in 1984 to James H. and Bunny Bastian. Sold in 2023. Destroyed in 2023. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1962 - Woman's Day speculative vacation homes, two schemes. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1963 - The Atkins Residence, Blountstown FL. Unbuilt.
1963 - The Fardig Residence, South Miami FL. A small one-bedroom house for two schoolteachers. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1963 - The Lawton Residence, Hartsville SC. Unbuilt.
1963 - The McCormick Residence, aka The Magic Dorr, Lake Dorr FL.
1963 - The Schultz Residence, Coral Gables FL. Unbuilt.
1963 - The Setnor Residence, Plantation Key FL.
1964 - The Feldman Residence, Miami FL.
1964 - The Kearney Residence, Ho-Ho-Kus NJ. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1964 - The Robertson Apartment Building, Coconut Grove FL.
1965 - The James Deering Danielson Residence, Coconut Grove FL. Bo Parker photo.
1965 - The Good Residence, East Lansing MI. Photo by Dave Trumpie.
1970 - The Homer and Dolly Hand Residence, Belle Glade FL. In 1983 Parker designed modifications for the Hands: a shop and bar, an enlarged Florida room, and conversion of the carport to a garage. Parker later revisited the house for a new owner. Photo by Randy Henning.
1965 - The Theodore and Lydia Kohler Residence, Calistoga CA. Unbuilt. Aaron G. Green agreed to help locally. The November 1965 preliminary design was a strongly triangular, multilevel organic house wrapped around a central stone fireplace, with a detached triangular library and bedrooms under a steep roof. Changed family circumstances and budget led the Kohlers to postpone rather than dilute the design, and it was never built. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1965 - The Kirk and Bea Landon Residence, 2 Casuarina Concourse, Coral Gables FL. Featured in Philanthropist, 1999. Remained in the Landon family until 2009. Sold in 2015 to Herbert A. Wertheim. A Coral Gables historic landmark. Photo by Bo Parker.
1965 - The Frank N. Magnuson Residence, 55 Casuarina Concourse, Coral Gables FL. Sold in 1981 to Milton and Patricia Wallace, who remodeled it with Parker. Additions in 2007 and 2015. Photo by Ezra Stoller.
1965 - The Samet Residence, Miami FL. Unbuilt.
1966 - The Crippen Residence, Bal Harbour FL.
1969 - The John and Esther Floyd Residence, Ann Arbor MI. After six contractors declined, local builder Joe O'Neal took it on, using magnolia and cypress from Esther's brother in Louisiana. Parker designed a small retirement home for Esther Floyd's mother in Pineville, Louisiana, in 1977, unbuilt. Photo by Whitney Kraus.
1966 - The Bill and Betty Waddell Residence, Galax VA. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1967 - The William and Joan Abelove Residence, Coral Gables FL. The owners furnished it with George Nakashima pieces. In 1972 a smaller triangular-pyramid guest wing with a circular bedroom over a studio/greenhouse was added. Builder: Porfiri Construction Company. Parker designed guest addition 1972. Destroyed in 1993 and replaced by a larger house. Photos by Bo Parker.
1967 - The Robert Gervais Residence, Papeete, Tahiti. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1970 - The Alfred Browning Parker Residence, aka Woodsong, aka Seminole, 3003 Seminole Street, Coconut Grove FL. Parker's sixth home: three 20-foot-square multilevel cubes (living/study, eating with guest loft, sleeping) set askew among rare palms on raised slabs and linked by a covered, skylit 88-foot swimming moat with a movable mahogany bridge. Built with William O. Sjogren. In 1983 it housed Parker's office. Featured in Miamian, February 1970; Florida Architect, September 1971; Florida Forestry Reporter, 1972; Florida Builder, May 1974; Florida Design, 2005-2006; Wallpaper, October 2006. Parker added a doghouse in 1985. Sold in 1993. Sold in 2009 to Anne Johnston. Sold in 2017 to Hans Peter and Monique Feringa. Sold in 2023 to Woodsong Ownership LLC. Photo by Bo Parker.
1972 - The Samuel Curtis and Imogene Johnson Residence, 4815 Lighthouse Drive, Wind Point WI. SC Johnson heir Sam Johnson, raised in Wright's Wingspread, chose Parker from House Beautiful. 14,000 square feet lines all main rooms along the Lake Michigan side, and the program grew to include an observatory, heliport, orchid greenhouse, shops, tennis court and skating lagoon, with Parker also designing the grounds. Built by Johnson and Hendricson Builders (supervised by James C. Inloes, Johnson Wax). Landscape design by Parker. Featured in New York Times, October 1969. Photo by Mark Hertzberg.
1968 - The Titleman Residence, Hollidaysburg PA.
1969 - The Jackie Gleason Residence, aka GreatGlea, Lauderhill FL. Unbuilt.
1969 - The Hill Residence, aka Hillhouse, Coral Gables FL. Unbuilt.
1970 - The Beinecke Ranch, aka Big B Ranch, Belle Glade FL. Partially built.
1971 - The Sanders Residence, Sanibel Island FL. Unbuilt.
1972 - The Mary Winslow Allen Crane Residence, Marathon Shores FL. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1972 - The Fisher Residence, Golden Beach FL. Unbuilt.
1973 - The Alfred Browning Parker Residence, aka Aerie, aka Windsong, and Barn Annex, Lincoln VT. Parker's seventh home. Built by Parker. Barn annex built in 1985. Parker lived there full time from 1992 until returning to Florida in 1994. Sold in 2000; owners altered house and Annex and destroyed the historic barn for an Annex addition, none by Parker. Photo by Bo Parker.
1977 - The Martin Residence, Pineville LA. Unbuilt.
1978 - The Broad Residence, Miami FL. Unbuilt.
1978 - Magnuson Corporation speculative residences, aka Florida Shores, Edgewater FL. Unbuilt.
1979 - The Suero Falla Residence, Lyford Cay Club, New Providence, Bahamas. Unbuilt.
1982 - The Samuel and Mona Knight Residence and Horse Farm, aka Classic Acres, Ocala FL. 80-acre farm, radiating seven pastures from an ancient oak by the barn, and designed the barn, a recreation building with racquetball court, landscaping and interiors. Builder: Wes Clyatt and Don Peavy. Landscape architect: Alfred Browning Parker. Featured in Florida Architecture, 1983; Brick in Architecture, 1984. Sold in 1984 to Ocala businessman Thad Boyd, who hired Parker for modifications. Photo by Bo Parker.
1979 - The Virrick Residence, Miami FL.
1980 - The Namon Residence. Unbuilt.
1980 - The Alfred Browning Parker Residence. Unbuilt.
1981 - The Codina Residence, Coral Gables FL. Unbuilt.
1981 - The Magnuson Penthouse, Coconut Grove FL.
1981 - The Wallace Residence remodeling, Coral Gables FL.
1982 - The Michael Burrows Speculative Residence I, aka Sea Blossom, Palm Beach FL.
1982 - The Haverfield Residence, Fort Myers FL.
1982 - The Marshall Residence, Charleston SC. Unbuilt.
1983 - The Michael Burrows Speculative Residence II, Palm Beach FL. Unbuilt.
1983 - The McNab Residence, Flagler Beach FL. Unbuilt.
1983 - The Rutenberg Residence, Clearwater FL. Unbuilt.
1986 - The Herbert and Marcia Stettin Residence, Miami FL. Builder: Cohen-Ager. Interiors by Coral Gables designer Howard Snoweiss. Photo by Bo Parker.
1984 - The Boyd Residence modifications, Ocala FL.
1984 - The Scharlin Residence, Coconut Grove FL. Unbuilt.
1984 - The Richard Strauss Residence, Key Biscayne FL. Unbuilt. Bachelor businessman Richard Strauss pitted Parker against another Miami architect in 1984. Strauss decided modernism was not for him and neither design advanced. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1985 - The Cameron Residence, Indian Creek FL. Unbuilt.
1987 - The Caplan Residence, aka Caplan's Nonesuch, Short Hills NJ. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
1987 - The Hillstrom Residence guesthouse, Coral Gables FL. Unbuilt.
1987 - The Kendall Residence, Kendall FL. Unbuilt.
1988 - The Gervas Residence Remodeling, Miami FL.
1989 - The Salazar Residence, Ocala FL. Unbuilt.
1992 - The Simon Residence, Key Biscayne FL.
1997 - The Alfred Browning Parker Residence, aka Skyview, Gainesville FL. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
2001 - The Rothblatt Residence, Melbourne FL. Unbuilt.
2003 - The du Rivage Residence, aka Hollyhouse, Sandisfield MA. Unbuilt.
2004 - The Alfred Browning Parker Residence, aka Euphrosyne Isle, Gainesville FL. Unbuilt. Photo from the A. B. Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.
2004 - University of Florida retreat home, M. H. Johnson renovation, Gainesville FL. Unbuilt.
Sources include: Randolph C. Henning, The Architecture of Alfred Browning Parker, and the Alfred Browning Parker Collection, University of Florida Libraries.