--- title: "Northwest Historic District – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Northwest Historic District, United States: The Northwest Historic District is a U.S. Nearby: Norton Museum of Art, Diocese of Palm Beach, Flagler Museum.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/northwest-historic-district" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/northwest-historic-district.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Sunset_Lounge_Historic_Jazz_Club.jpg/3840px-Sunset_Lounge_Historic_Jazz_Club.jpg" --- United States historic place # Northwest Historic District The Northwest Historic District is a U.S. ![Northwest Historic District](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Sunset_Lounge_Historic_Jazz_Club.jpg/3840px-Sunset_Lounge_Historic_Jazz_Club.jpg) Northwest Historic District · Wikimedia Commons The place The Northwest Historic District is a U.S. historic district in West Palm Beach, Florida on the northwestern side of the downtown area. It was designated a historic district on January 22, 1992. Its first Non-Native American settlements date back to the late 19th Century. After Henry Flagler announced plans to extend the Florida East Coast Railway to Southeastern Florida, blacks from northern Florida, Georgia, and the Bahamas moved to this area in search of work. West Palm Beach became incorporated in 1894, making it the oldest municipality in Palm Beach County. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Historic_District), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Northwest Historic District 10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Norton Museum of Art The Norton Museum of Art is an art museum in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. Its collection includes over 8,200 works, with a concentration in European, American, and Chinese art as well as in contemporary art and photography. 2.1 km · museum in West Palm Beach, Florida · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Museum_of_Art) 2. Diocese of Palm Beach The Diocese of Palm Beach is diocese of the Catholic Church in eastern Florida in the United States The patron saint of the diocese is Mary, mother of Jesus, under the title Queen of the Apostles. The Diocese of Palm Beach is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Miami. 2 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_Palm_Beach) 3. Flagler Museum Whitehall is a 75-room, 60,000 square foot Gilded Age palace type mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States. Completed in 1902, it is a major example of neoclassical Beaux Arts architecture designed by Carrère and Hastings for Henry Flagler, a leading captain of industry in the late 19th century, and a leading developer of Florida as a tourist destination. 1.8 km · house · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall_(Henry_M._Flagler_House%29) 4. Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion Jeffrey Epstein owned a large waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, United States, with the address 358 El Brillo Way. It became notorious as the site of his child sexual abuse. 3.5 km · house of Jeffrey Epstein is Palm Beach · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein%27s_Palm_Beach_mansion) 5. Bethesda-by-the-Sea Bethesda-by-the-Sea is an Episcopal Church by the Lake Worth Lagoon in Palm Beach, Florida. It is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida and the oldest existing congregation in Palm Beach. 2.4 km · church building in Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda-by-the-Sea) 6. Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. 1.3 km · performing arts center in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kravis_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts) 7. Palm Beach Hotel The Palm Beach Hotel is a former hotel located at 235-251 Sunrise Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida, in the United States. The building now serves as a condominium, the Palm Beach Hotel Condominium, and, on part of the fourth floor, a Modern Orthodox synagogue, the New Synagogue of Palm Beach. 2 km · historic four-story hotel located im Palm Beach, Florida · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_Hotel_(Palm_Beach,_Florida%29) 8. Palm Beach Atlantic University Palm Beach Atlantic University is a private nondenominational Christian university in West Palm Beach, Florida. PBA's nine colleges focus on the liberal arts with a select collection of professional studies. 1.8 km · Christian university in West Palm Beach, Florida · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_Atlantic_University) 9. Vineta Hotel The Vineta Hotel is a historic hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. It is located at 363 Cocoanut Row. 2.5 km · hotel in Palm Beach, United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineta_Hotel) 10. Worth Avenue Worth Avenue is an upscale shopping and dining district in Palm Beach, Florida. The Avenue stretches four blocks from Lake Worth to the Atlantic Ocean. 2.9 km · Shopping and dining resort · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worth_Avenue) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Northwest Historic District **Airports:** President Donald J. Trump (DJT), 5 km · Fort Lauderdale Hollywood (FLL), 72 km · Miami (MIA), 105 km\ **Stations:** West Palm Beach station, 700 m\ - Fort Lauderdale → Northwest Historic District 969 km · quickest by air, 4h 45m · $200–290 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/fort-lauderdale-to-northwest-historic-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Fort+Lauderdale&to=Northwest+Historic+District) - Miami → Northwest Historic District 1002 km · quickest by air, 4h 56m · $220–580 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/miami-to-northwest-historic-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Miami&to=Northwest+Historic+District) - Orlando → Northwest Historic District 674 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · $220–330 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/orlando-to-northwest-historic-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Orlando&to=Northwest+Historic+District) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Northwest%20Historic%20District) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Northwest Historic District Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Northwest Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in The county has a handful of smaller municipal airports as well, serving mostly private and chartered air traffic. - Get in In addition to near-daily sailings to the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America, these cities offer ferry service to the Bahamas. From [Wikivoyage: Palm Beach County](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_County), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Bacalar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bacalar) MX 9 ways of moving, 41 sources 1,236 km 2. [Caye Caulker](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/caye-caulker) BZ 9 ways of moving, 42 sources 1,291 km 3. [Flores](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/flores) GT 9 ways of moving, 32 sources 1,486 km 4. [Fire Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fire-island) US 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 1,674 km 5. [Vieques](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vieques) PR 8 ways of moving, 12 sources 1,778 km If you know how people move in Northwest Historic District – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cnorthwest-historic-district&title=Northwest+Historic+District&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fnorthwest-historic-district), and the note gets an entry. 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