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The Hotel Ponce de Leon, also known as The Ponce, was a luxury hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, built by millionaire developer and Standard Oil co-founder Henry M. Flagler. Built between 1885–1887, the winter resort opened in January 1888.
Cork Courthouse, St Augustine's Catholic Church, pubs, restaurants Washington Street ( Irish : Sráid Washington ) [ 2 ] is a street in central Cork city , Ireland. Built in 1824, [ 3 ] it runs from the old medieval town centre onto the site of the western marshes, and today links the Western Road and Lancaster Quay with the Grand Parade .
Upon purchasing the hotel, Henry Flagler renamed the Casa Monica the Cordova Hotel. Flagler, a founder, with John D. Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil Company, already owned two hotels in St. Augustine, the Ponce de Leon Hotel (now Flagler College) and the Hotel Alcazar (now City Hall and the Lightner Museum). From 1888 to 1902, the hotel ...
The Montenotte Hotel is a four star hotel in Cork, Ireland. Built originally as a residence named Lee View House in the 1820s, [ 1 ] the house was extended in the 1880s, [ 1 ] and became the 'Lee View Hotel' in the 1940s. [ 2 ]
The Shanahan family used a number of salvaged items as part of the redecoration and renovation. This included the door to the cellar bar (which came from Cork City Gaol), the doors to the hotel (from the Savoy Cinema in the city), the counter in the lounge (from a bank in the city), and with some tables coming from Saint Augustines Church.
Arbutus Lodge was a restaurant and hotel in Cork in County Cork, Ireland. It was a fine dining restaurant that was yearly awarded one Michelin star in the periods 1974–1983, 1987 and 1988. [1] [2] The Egon Ronay Guide awarded the restaurant one star in the periods 1975–1978, 1983 and 1987. It was awarded two stars in the periods 1979-1981 ...
The building was designed and constructed by the P.J. Pauley Jail Building and Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, Missouri in 1891. Its construction was financed by Henry Flagler, who struck a deal with the county for $10,000 because the former jail building stood on land that Flagler needed for the construction of his Ponce de León Hotel. [2]
Ballybeg Priory (Irish: Prióireacht an Bhaile Bhig), also known as Ballybeg Abbey, the Abbey of St Thomas, and St Thomas's Priory, is a 13th-century priory of the Augustinian order near the town of Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland. It is home to one of the best preserved and most substantial dovecots in Ireland. The priory was founded in 1229 ...