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Standard Oil tycoon Henry Flagler built the 75-room Gilded Age mansion Whitehall as a wedding present for his wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, in 1902. More than a century later, the 100,000 ...
1830 – Henry Morrison Flagler born Jan. 2 in Hopewell ... the Palm Beach winter retreat Flagler has built as a wedding present for Mary Lily. 1903 – The Breakers is destroyed by fire.
The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach is a wedding gift that keeps giving. Industrialist Henry Flagler built the 75-room mansion, formerly known as Whitehall, as a wedding present for his wife.
From noon to 5 p.m., entry fees will be waived at Henry Flagler’s palatial Palm Beach ... built the mansion as a wedding gift for his bride, Mary Lily. It is filled with priceless art, one ...
The "newly risen spirit" of Henry Morrison Flagler sat comfortably alive on ... She described her wedding present as Whitehall and a five-foot strand of pearls with a large diamond clasp.
Completed in 1902 as a wedding present to Mary Lily, Whitehall, which today is the Henry Flagler Museum, is a 60,000-square-foot winter retreat built along the prestigious Cocoanut Row.
But the first of these mansions, the granddaddy of them all, was Whitehall — a 55-room, 60,000 square foot vacation house that belonged to Henry ... time Flagler built Whitehall as a wedding ...
But it was not until 1901, long after he had ignited development in Palm Beach and Miami, that Henry Flagler built a home in Florida on the same grand scale as his hotels. A wedding gift to his ...
Completed in 1902 as a wedding present for Henry Flagler's third wife, Whitehall (as it was then named) was a grand Palm Beach estate with 75 rooms, a splendid example of beaux-arts style.
Henry Flagler, the oil baron who cut a railroad ... 75-room mansion Flagler built as a wedding present for his wife. “Tourism, agriculture and transportation in this state all basically began ...
In St. Augustine, Henry Flagler is well known. The wealthy New York entrepreneur left his influences all over the city, from the former Alcazar Hotel, the beautiful Memorial Presbyterian Church ...