The Royal Poinciana Hotel is a Gilded Age hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, United States. Enlarge twice and double the size each time, it becomes the largest wood structure in the world, with 1,700 employees and accommodation for 2,000 guests. It was closed and destroyed during the Great Depression.
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This six-storey Georgian-style hotel was built as an elite winter retreat by Henry Flagler, an oil, real estate, and railroad tycoon. When he started buying land here "at any price," Palm Beach is a lonely barrier island on the Atlantic coast of Florida. However, that began to change when Flagler extended its East Coast Florida Railroad into West Palm Beach.
The Royal Poinciana Hotel, built beside Lake Worth Lagoon, is meant to accommodate train passengers escaping from the cold northern winter.
The ground was damaged May 1, 1893, and the hotel opened on 11 February 1894 - welcomed 17 guests.
Flagler builds a spur line across Lake Worth to Palm Beach, allowing the wealthy to arrive right at the hotel entrance with their own private train car. Palm Beach is rapidly evolving into a popular tourist destination for parties, golf, tennis, boating, bathing and fishing.
The social season originally ran between mid-December and February 23 (the day after George Washington's annual Flagler Balls was held at Whitehall , 1902 his home). Enlarged to handle crowds, the hotel stretches 1,800 feet (549 meters) along Lake Worth. The alley reaches more than three miles (5 kilometers) in length. Bellhops deliver messages and packages from the front desk to guest rooms by bicycle. On the Atlantic coast side of the property, Flagler was founded in 1896 The Palm Beach Inn , later renamed The Breakers Hotel in 1901 because guests often requested rooms "over by breakers." The customers were transported between two hotels along pine streets in wheeled rattan chairs, often referred to as Afromobile, powered by hotel employees, with separate footprints for pedestrians.
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The 1920s and 1930s
However, in 1920, tourists began to regard the Victorian-style hotel as a relic, and the attendance at Royal Poinciana declined. In 1925, the Breakers were burned and rebuilt, reopened in 1926 with a new luxury attracting guests away from the Royal Poinciana. The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane hit a loud old hotel, especially the north wing, which shifted from its foundation. It was repaired, but then the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the next Great Depression produced a fatal blow. The vast structure was closed in 1934, and demolished on Labor Day in 1935. In 1960, a marker was placed in a rebuilt location of a large hotel that had helped set up Palm Beach.
References
- Grand hotels in Florida from the Gilded Age
- The Breakers Hotel History
- The history of Palm Beach, Florida
External links
- The Community of Palm Beach County History
- Whitehall , Flagler Museum
- Welcome to Hotel Royal Poinciana History and photography archive
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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