Architect and grandson of Miami Beach mogul John A Collins, Pancoast (1898 - 1972) designed at least three buildings in St. Petersburg, 222, 415 and 831 Brightwaters Blvd on Snell Isle. He also designed the Miami Beach Library and Art Center (now the Bass Museum of Art) considered by many to be the city's first Art Deco building on the island. Along with L. Murray Dixon and other notable architects, Pancoast would help shape the architectually exotic Art Deco landscape of Miami Beach. Pancoast also designed buildings on the University of Florida campus including The Hub (1950).