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The Breakers Palm Beach is a historic, Renaissance Revival style luxury hotel with 534 rooms. It is located at 1 South County Road in Palm Beach, Florida.During the 1895–96 winter season, business tycoon Henry Flagler opened the first Breakers resort, then the only oceanfront lodging south of Daytona Beach, to accommodate additional tourists due to the popularity of his Royal Poinciana Hotel.
Palm Beach (which wouldn’t be incorporated as a town until 1911) didn’t have a fire department at the time. And it wouldn’t until 1921. The Breakers' 1903 fire as seen from the hotel's ocean ...
Coordinates: 26°42′56.5″N 80°02′29.6″W. The Royal Poinciana in 1900. The Royal Poinciana Hotel was a Gilded Age hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, United States. Developed by Standard Oil founder Henry Flagler and approximately 1,000 workers, the hotel opened on February 11, 1894. As Flagler's first structure in South Florida, the Royal ...
December 8, 1972. The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion located at 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, US. It was built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family. The 70-room mansion, with a gross area of 138,300 square feet (12,850 m 2) and 62,482 square feet ...
The Breakers, Palm Beach Guests receive full access to the resort’s amenities, but can retreat to the club for breakfast, light lunch fare, sunset hors d’oeuvres and desserts at night.
More: Fortune names The Breakers in Palm Beach one of 100 best companies to work for The Breakers debuted its redesigned Flagler Club, described as a 'boutique hotel-within-a-hotel,' in November.
The Breakers, standing for nearly 100 years, may just be the epicenter of Palm Beach. Although the famous hotel guests check into now has been open since 1926, its history dates back to the 1890s ...
General note: The Breakers Hotel, built by Henry Flagler and located at One South County Road in Palm Beach, Florida, originally opened in 1896. It was rebuilt after fires in 1903 and 1925, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 8 x 10 in.