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Casa Rio (also been known as the S.W. Stribley House) is a house that was built in 1926. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was designed by architects Henry Van Ryn and Gerrit de Gelleke in the Mission/Spanish Revival style .
Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat [7] of Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 86,395; it was estimated to have grown to 95,949 in 2022, making it the 25th-most populous city in Florida. [ 5 ]
José Maria Bosch Lamarque (Pepín Bosh) was a Cuban exile and the chief executive and president of Bacardi for 32 years. [1] He is credited for saving the Bacardi company from bankruptcy and closure several times in his tenure, and oversaw its rum empire during the most tumultuous moments in the company's history, including the Great Depression and the Cuban Revolution. [1]
Flagler is a commercial real estate company headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.Flagler is a corporate legacy of American businessman Henry M. Flagler.. The company has developed more than 30 million square feet of commercial real estate space over the past 30 years.
Originally constructed between 1958 and 1961, van der Rohe designed the corporate Office Building, and Felix Candela designed bottling plant and distillery cellars of Bacardi & Co. [1] The bottling company's owner, Jose "Pepín" Bosch, had originally commissioned Van der Rohe to design the company's headquarters in Santiago de Cuba and Bacardi's plant in the outskirts of Mexico City. [2]
The Cathedral of Rum in Cataño, Puerto Rico is the world's largest rum distillery. [1] The Bacardi Distillery is located on 55 hectares (137 acres) and consists of forty-four buildings and structures, twenty-four of which contribute to its historical character. [2]
Unanswered questions remain about a fatal shooting at a Madison, Wisconsin, private school as new details emerge about the shooter’s family life and possible ties to a California man who ...
The research library contains over a thousand books on Fort Myers history and botany, as well as biographies on Thomas Edison and Henry Ford and their families. [ 9 ] Open to the public since 1947, Edison Ford Winter Estates receives more than 200,000 visitors annually. [ 10 ]