Florida's Grand Hotels From The Gilded Age (FL) (Images of America) Review

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(More customer reviews)Anyone under the age of one hundred should find this compelling pictorial history of Florida's Grand Hotels in the gilded era fascinating beyond words. Flager on the east coast and Plant on the West Coast. We cannot underestimate the contribution each of these financial moguls made to the Florida we know today. Priceless !

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Florida in the late 1800s was a paradise waiting to be discovered. During this period, two visionary tycoons of the Gilded Age set out on separate ventures that would transform the Sunshine State from America's last frontier into a destination for the rich and famous. The grand hotels that Henry M. Flagler and Henry B. Plant opened at their planned resort sites offered a fantasy stay surrounded by all the accoutrements expected by sophisticated, Gilded Age patrons. Florida's Grand Hotels from the Gilded Age provides a look at these magnificent structures during their glory years, along with the fashionable entertainment and social and recreational pastimes that engaged their gilded guests.

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Flagler's St. Augustine Hotels: The Ponce de Leon, the Alcazar, and the Casa Monica Review

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Near the end of the nineteenth century Standard Oilmillionaire Henry Morrison Flagler ventured to St. Augustine, Florida,America's Oldest City, and transformed it into an exotic traveldestination for the social elite. He raised magnificent, fancifulSpanish Renaissance hotel palaces on what had been orange grove andsalt marsh. Then he connected his creation with the outside world bybuilding a modern railroad system.Flagler's hotels stand as monuments to innovation in architecture and engineering. They were the first large buildings in the United States constructed of poured concrete, and they pioneered use of novel amenities like electric lights, steam heat, and elevators. They are still a vital part of modern St. Augustine. The Ponce de Leon, Flagler's preeminent hotel, now houses Flagler College; the Alcazar now holds the City Hall and the Lightner Museum. Only the Casa Monica (previously called the Cordova) is presently a hotel.

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