Thomas Reed Martin (April 28, 1866 in Menasha, Wisconsin – February 1949) was an architect who was brought to Florida by one of its major developers during the turn of the twentieth century.

[2] Many of Martin's buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

[3] He graduated from high school in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, he moved with his family to Chicago in 1883.

Palmer commissioned Holabird and Roche to design her large winter home in Sarasota.

At the age of forty-four, Martin came to the Sarasota area from Chicago to work for Palmer in the fall of 1910.