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Early years of the Ponce De Leon: clippings from an old scrapbook of those days, kept by the first manager of this prince of hotels.Entry/Object ID
Library.1775Description
97 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations
The early years of the Ponce De Leon: clippings from an old scrapbook of those days, kept by the first manager of this prince of hotels.
Compiled and edited by Louise Decatur Castleden from Osborn Dunlap Seavey's original scrapbook.
The Ponce de Leon Hotel, also known as The Ponce, was an exclusive luxury hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, built by millionaire developer and Standard Oil co-founder Henry M. Flagler and completed in 1888. The hotel was designed in the Spanish Renaissance style as the first major project of the New York architecture firm Carrère & Hastings, which would go on to gain world renown.
The hotel was the first of its kind constructed entirely of poured concrete using the local coquina stone as aggregate. The hotel was also one of the first buildings in the country wired for electricity from the onset, with the power being supplied by DC generators installed by Flagler's friend, Thomas Edison.Collection
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Hotel Ponce de Leon (Saint Augustine, Fla.)., Hotels -- Florida -- Saint Augustine., Saint Augustine (Fla.) -- Historic buildings.Publication Details
Author
Castleden, Louise Decatur, Seavey, Osborn Dunlap.Publisher
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St. Augustine, Fla.?Call No.
F 319 .S2 C37 1958