Bingham-Blossom House, Shingle style residence in Palm Beach, United States.

The Bingham-Blossom House was a residence built in the Shingle style with wooden shingles covering the exterior and deep covered porches for ventilation. The surrounding property featured rare tropical trees that botanist David Grandison Fairchild had collected from around the world.

Architect George Lainhart designed and built the house in 1893 for Charles and Mary Payne Bingham, a family from Cleveland. The building stood for roughly 80 years before it was destroyed by fire in 1974.

The house was named Figulus, Latin for "potter", a nod to the Bingham family's ceramics business in Cleveland. The Binghams gave their daughter Frances and her husband Chester C. Bolton the neighbouring estate Casa Apava, built just south in 1919 by architect Abram Garfield, son of President James A. Garfield. That Mediterranean Revival complex still stands and sold for $71.2 million in 2015.

The house no longer stands: it burned and was demolished in 1974, and the site at 1250 South Ocean Boulevard was cleared except for the plantings. What remains are the trees David Grandison Fairchild brought from around the world for the original 17-acre grounds. Look for the surviving plantings rather than any building.

The house stayed cool without air conditioning thanks to its wide roof overhangs and strategically positioned windows. This passive ventilation design allowed the deep porches to pull air through the entire structure and keep it comfortable.