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  2. The Breakers (hotel) - Wikipedia

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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.The current structure, opened in December 1926, is the third version of The Breakers, as the previous hotel buildings on the site burnt down in 1903 and 1925.

  3. 'The Breakers is on fire!': 120 years ago, blaze wiped out ...

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    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 ...

  4. Need a Vacation? Here's How We Spent a Weekend in Palm Beach

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    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 ...

  5. Henry Flagler - Wikipedia

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    Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio. He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway. He is also known as a founder of the cities of Miami and Palm Beach ...

  6. Tour Palm Beach like a '60s socialite at these 'Palm Royale ...

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    Founded in the 1890s by Henry Flagler, The Breakers is an Italian Renaissance-style hotel and piece of Florida history, occupying 140 acres of oceanfront property on the island of Palm Beach. The ...

  7. The Breakers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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