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The Breakers Palm Beach is a historic, Renaissance Revival style luxury hotel with 534 rooms. It is located at 1 South County Road in Palm Beach, Florida.During the 1895–96 winter season, business tycoon Henry Flagler opened the first Breakers resort, then the only oceanfront lodging south of Daytona Beach, to accommodate additional tourists due to the popularity of his Royal Poinciana Hotel.
Dozens of homes were left unstable in the Daytona Beach area after Hurricane Nicole's erosion. Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesBack-to-back hurricanes left an unnerving scene on the Florida coast in ...
In 1989, it was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press. [5] The district includes areas of seasonal hotels, commercial strips, and residential area. [6] Hotels on Ocean Drive, which can actually face the ocean, run from 5th to 15th Streets and front onto Lummus Park, a
In some situations, beach nourishment is not a suitable measure to take for erosion control, such as in areas with sand sinks or frequent and large storms. [10] Dynamic revetment, which uses loose cobble to mimic the function of a natural storm beach, may be a soft-erosion control alternative in high energy environments such as open coastlines ...
Sand is dumped on the beach to shore up the dune damaged by beach erosion on February 20, 2024 on Singer Island in Riviera Beach, Florida. Diamond Walker is a journalist at The Palm Beach Post ...
Stephen Parker Leatherman, also known as Dr. Beach, (born November 6, 1947) is an American geoscientist, coastal ecologist, and author.He was the first director of the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University (FIU), from 1997 to 2009.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
Incredible video emerged this week showing severe erosion of homes in Jupiter Inlet Colony in Jupiter, Florida, north of Palm Beach. About 70% of the county's 47 miles of coastline is considered ...