Phillips Point Site Once Housed Hotel

Readers: Periodically we offer historical questions that have stumped even the Post Time staff and our cadre of talented local history scholars.
One of our colleagues asked the story behind Phillips Point, along Flagler Drive in downtown West Palm Beach. We do know the site of Phillips Point was the Royal Palm Hotel, one of many business hotels that sprang up during the real estate boom. It opened Nov. 23, 1922, on Lakeview Avenue at the Royal Park Bridge.
In the 1950s, it was the site of the Hut, a popular teen hangout. And in the 1960s, a grassy area just to the north became “People’s Park,” a gathering place for what were then called “hippies” and are now grandparents.
The Historical Society of Palm Beach County and the management offices of the Phillips Point office building searched their records in vain for additional information.
Speaking of points, the Four Points intersection, at Military Trail and Southern Boulevard in suburban West Palm Beach, is now the site of the Palm Beach County Emergency Operations Center and the new elections headquarters.
The northwest and northeast corners, which had housed strip malls, are about to be swallowed up by an expressway-style interchange and crossover as part of the widening of Southern Boulevard.
Was it ever an important corner? In 1949, it was “the hub of suburban development,” a Palm Beach Post article says. But our regular round of sources unearthed little more about the spot.
Readers: Can you help?