Frenchman’s Creek offers the finest private South Florida real estate and features some of the most elegant Palm Beach Gardens homes. Choose from a full spectrum of residences; from golf villas to custom ocean access estates and waterfront homes.
Our luxury homes offer idyllic views over our two championship golf courses, or back yards that gently slope down into beautiful lakes. 95 very special homes have a waterfront view that are deep water boat docks, allowing direct access to the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. Adjacent to our community and accessible through the deep water canals is the full-service Loggerhead Club and Marina, where our residents have priority access to available boat and yacht slips. This well-protected harbor accommodates vessels ranging in length from 30 to 120 feet.
Frenchman’s Creek offers the finest private South Florida real estate and features some of the most elegant Palm Beach Gardens homes. Choose from a full spectrum of residences; from golf villas to custom ocean access estates and waterfront homes.
Palm Beach Gardens is located in the West Palm Beach area and is just minutes from Juno Beach and Riviera Beach. Frenchman’s Creek is ideally located just five minutes from two major thoroughfares (Interstate 95 and Florida’s Turnpike) and twenty minutes from Palm Beach International Airport.
The History or Frenchman’s Creek
In 1935, the Hoyt family bought land on North Prosperity Farms Road near the Intracoastal Waterway. They were attracted to a freshwater basin and a hurricane haven for boats. By the 1940s, the family-owned much of the area, then known as Paradise Port. In the later 1940s, federal surveyors found a small wooden sign that one of the Hoyt children, Billy Hoyt, had placed on a small creek. It turned out the children had informally named the stream for one of their mother’s favorite novels: Du Maurier’s Frenchman’s Creek. The name became official and still marks the small waterway that runs through the Frenchman’s Creek neighborhood and connects to the nearby Marina.
In 1977, developers Burt Haft and Jack Gaines purchased the 1,400 acres of land formerly owned by the Hoyts, including two public golf courses, from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for $61 million. The 700 acres south of Donald Ross Road, which included the two golf courses, became Frenchman’s Creek. The 700 acres north of Donald Ross Road were sold and are now home to The Bear’s Club and Ritz Carlton Golf and Spa communities. Palm Beach County approved the development of 3,300 housing units at Frenchman’s Creek; Haft and Gaines chose a much lower density of only 600 homes sites. Houses ranging in price from $325,000 to more than $3 million were then marketed. In 1986, land on the Atlantic Ocean in Juno Beach was purchased and the Beach Club was built and remains a fixture in Palm Beach Gardens today.
Contact US
Frenchman’s Creek Beach & Country Club
13495 Tournament Drive
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
Phone: (561) 784-6505
Toll Free: (877) 781-7552
info@frenchmanscreek.com
Website: https://www.frenchmanscreek.com/
