Betsy Skipp in her Coral Gables home. When Skipp was growing up, she and her friends would sneak into the abandoned Biltmore Hotel. Then World War II happened and the federal government ...

The Biltmore Hotel has survived hurricanes ... and in 1968 the Veterans’ Administration abandoned the hospital it operated there. Neighborhood children in the late 1970s used to dare each ...

Opening a full two months ahead of schedule, the Biltmore Hotel was the culmination of a plan by J.F. Sartori, president of the Security Trust and Savings Bank, who had convinced dozens of other ...