Peek was born January 26, 1900, in Palatka, Putnam County, Florida, to Gouverneur Frank Peek and Rebecca Medwin Hyde. His father died the year after his birth. He and his mother lived with his maternal grandmother, Anne Elizabeth Copcutt Hyde in DeLand, and two other spinster Grand Aunts thereafter.
Peek graduated with a bachelor of science degree from Stetson University in 1920. He then studied at Harvard University (Master in Architecture, 1924), his senior thesis being "A Casino at De Leon Springs." His Harvard education included two years of study in Italy.
After serving as artist of record on an archaeological team at Deir el Baḥri, in Egypt (1924–1925), Peek then returned to Florida to begin architectural practice in DeLand. He did the major design for the National Archives Building in Washington, District of Columbia, when he worked for the John Russell Pope Architectural firm. He was commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to draw sketches of the King Tutankhamen digs, shortly after graduating from Harvard.
Peek designed many landmark structures in DeLand, including the old City Hall and the civic band shell.
Peek also created notable homes in DeLand"s University Terrace neighborhood. The subdivision is contained by Amelia, Garfield, Oakdale and University Avenues.
lieutenant was platted in late 1925 by Harry West. Prahl, who was a contractor from Erie, Pennsylvania. and who employed Peek as consulting architect between 1926 and 1928. The development comprised the styles popular in Florida at the time, with Tudor and Colonial designs on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue and those with Mediterranean and Mission revival to the north.
1924 The DeLand Hotel, now DeLand Artisan Inn, 215 South.
