Nobody Asked Me, But…No.150; Hotel History: The Breakers Hotel (1896)* &  Whitehall Mansion (1902)

Stanley Turkel, CMHS | October 13, 2015

By Stanley Turkel, CMHS 1. Hotel History: The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida Henry Morrison Flagler's first hotel in Palm Beach was the 439-room Royal Poinciana which opened in 1894. It was called the "Queen of Winter Resorts" and was considered the largest resort hotel in the world. In order to build the Royal Poinciana and the Florida East Coast Railway at the same time, black workers were brought from the Bahamas. They lived in a segregated camp, called the "Styx" without running water and electricity. In the center of the six-story building was a large rotunda from which ran several miles of corridors. There were ...