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Whitehall is a 75-room, 100,000 square foot (9700 square meter) Gilded Age palace type mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States.Completed in 1902, it is a major example of neoclassical Beaux Arts architecture designed by Carrère and Hastings for Henry Flagler, a leading captain of industry in the late 19th century, and a leading developer of Florida as a tourist ...
Flagler Museum officials in Palm Beach were unaware the grand dining hall was accented with extremely rare West Indian satinwood. ... Dark tint added during Whitehall's time as a hotel in the 1920s.
Built in 1902 as a wedding present to Mary Lily, Whitehall (now the Flagler Museum) was a 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m 2) winter retreat that established the Palm Beach "season" of about 8–12 weeks, for the wealthy of America's Gilded Age. [citation needed] Whitehall (Now Flagler Museum)
Henry built Whitehall, a “….75-room, 100,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion…as a wedding present for his wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler. The couple used the home as a winter retreat from 1902 until Flagler's death in 1913, establishing the Palm Beach season for the wealthy of the Gilded Age.” [9]
“The Story of Whitehall: 120 Years in the Making” will be on view through Dec. 31
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