Henry Morrison Flagler House
 Henry Morrison Flagler Mansion |
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| place | Palm Beach , Florida |
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| architect | Pottier & Stymus, Carrère and Hastings |
| opening | 1900-1901 |
| management |
John Blades
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The Henry Morrison Flagler House (also listed as Whitehall or Henry Morrison Flagler Mansion ) is a contemporary history museum in Palm Beach , Florida .
history
The 55-room property, laid out as a marble palace, was built by railroad magnate Henry Morrison Flagler , a business partner of John Davison Rockefeller , in 1902 as a wedding gift to his wife. This former stately summer residence, which served as a hotel from the mid-1920s to the end of the 50s, can be visited. You can see furniture and rooms from the time it was built and memorabilia from the era of railway construction. On December 5, 1972, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Henry Morrison Flagler House has been a National Historic Landmark since February 16, 2000 and is considered an outstanding example of American neoclassicism of the Gilded Age .
nature
The house consists of two levels. On the ground floor there are social and economic rooms arranged around an inner courtyard . There you will find a library, music room , billiard room, dance hall, breakfast and dining room, salon and a larger hall. A fountain bubbles in the inner courtyard. The second floor houses the residents' bedrooms and other common rooms.
Web links
- Homepage (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Flagler, Henry Morrison, House; Whitehall on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 7, 2017.
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Florida. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.flagler.org/
Coordinates: 26 ° 42 ′ 49.6 " N , 80 ° 2 ′ 36" W.