of March 2014. Featured in a YouTube video, the house has six bedrooms, 11 full bathrooms, four half-baths, marble floors, casement windows, a temperature-controlled wine cellar, a movie theater, billiard room, gym, cabana and grill room overlooking the swimming pool, a concrete "deep water" dock capable of accommodating a large yacht, and a full-house generator. With high ceilings—even a two-story closet in the master suite and two-story greenhouse windows facing the lake—the house reveals superior architectural detailing. With formal columns and clerestories above arched windows, the house made a vivid statement when built and continues to draw admirers and prospective buyers. Robert Gottfried's legacy extends beyond the homes he built across Palm Beach. His innovative bent spilled over to related fields, including landscaping and construction materials. "Robert Gottfried built his signature style, in partnership with architect John B. Gosman, into a definitive Palm Beach genre, where his companies controlled almost every aspect of the house's construction, having established Palm Beach Marble & Tile, Classic Moulders, Imports Unlimited, Classic Polyroof Co. and the PaverLock Driveway Co." In the 1980s, he collaborated with Duane Cronenwett of North Palm Beach, who had worked for another Gottfried company. Their inventions received several grants from the U.S. Patent Office in the 1980s. One patent was for a roofing system. A few involved an apparatus and method for injecting trees with nutrients and therapeutic liquids. Their joint venture, Tree Saver Inc., was a timely response which is credited with helping to avert a major crisis on the island. Lethal yellowing disease had already killed many varieties of palm trees all over South Florida. He was a quiet supporter of local children's charities as well as those in North Carolina, and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital References Further reading Elle Decor Magazine "PALM BEACH POP: LISA PERRY'S FLORIDA HOME" article External links Photo Gallery for Palm Beach Regency by Slim Aarons James Edition article "THE REAL PALM BEACH" New York Social Diary article "Palm Beach Real Estate Roulette" Video presentation for Gottfried Regency at 748 Hi Mount Road Palm Beach, FL Pamela Gottfried at Douglas Elliman Real Estate Palm Beach Chicago Tribune 1992 article "Slow Market? Not In Palm Beach" Pamela Hoffpauer Gottfried 1926 births 2007 deaths American real estate businesspeople American business executives People from Palm Beach, Florida