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The Royal Poinciana in 1900. The Royal Poinciana Hotel was a Gilded Age hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, United States.Developed by Standard Oil founder Henry Flagler and approximately 1,000 workers, the hotel opened on February 11, 1894.
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.
The one-hour film that focuses mostly on the Negro League’s history in Florida will air on Feb. 2 on various PBS stations, including WLRN and WPBT in Palm Beach County. “Henry Flagler knew ...
The Flagler Club, “a luxe boutique hotel-within-a-hotel” at The Breakers Palm Beach, ... But the hotel, which was founded in 1896 by Henry Flagler, reconceptualized The Flagler Club in 2015.
Whitehall is a 75-room, 100,000 square foot (9700 square meter) Gilded Age palace type mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States. Completed in 1902, it is a major example of neoclassical Beaux Arts architecture designed by Carrère and Hastings for Henry Flagler, a leading captain of industry in the late 19th century, and a leading developer of Florida as a tourist ...
Dark tint added during Whitehall's time as a hotel in the 1920s The mansion, also known as Whitehall, was built by Standard Oil co-founder and hotel-and-railroad magnate Henry Flagler in 1902 for ...
Flagler completed the 1,100-room Royal Poinciana Hotel on the shores of Lake Worth in Palm Beach and extended his railroad to its service town, West Palm Beach, by 1894, founding Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. [1] The Royal Poinciana Hotel was at the time the largest wooden structure in the world.
Check out West Palm Beach’s Norton Museum of Art after it opens at 11 a.m. Housed in a stately Art Deco building, it features American, Chinese, European and contemporary art from a 8,200-piece ...