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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 ...
Statue of Henry Flagler that stands in front of Flagler College (Flagler's former Ponce de León Hotel) in Saint Augustine, Florida. In March 1913, Flagler fell down a flight of marble stairs at Whitehall. He never recovered and died in Palm Beach of his injuries on May 20, 1913, at 83 years of age.
Dark tint added during Whitehall's time as a hotel in the 1920s The mansion, also known as Whitehall, was built by Standard Oil co-founder and hotel-and-railroad magnate Henry Flagler in 1902 for ...
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 Flagler Museum's fall exhibit celebrates the symbolism that surrounds Whitehall Skip to main content
The one-hour film that focuses mostly on the Negro League’s history in Florida will air on Feb. 2 on various PBS stations, including WLRN and WPBT in Palm Beach County. “Henry Flagler knew ...
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.
Whitehall, the Flagler residence-turned-museum in Palm Beach, was built nine years after his arrival from St. Augustine Memory Lane: Before Whitehall, Henry Flagler hung his hat at these Palm ...