Atlantic Beach Hotel

Photograph

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Jacksonville History Center

tlantic Beach Hotel, 1920s.

tlantic Beach Hotel, 1920s.

Name/Title

Atlantic Beach Hotel

Entry/Object ID

2003.001.123

Description

Contienental Hotel/ Atlantic Beach Hotel Enormous hotel built by the Florida East Coast Hotel Company in Atlantic Beach beginning in June of 1901. Considered one of the largest buildings in the South, it was 447 feet long adn 47 feet wide with a six story central rotunda and residential wings four and five stories tall. The hotel featured a nine-hole golf course and its own ocean front pier. In 1913, Flagler's group sold the hotel and nearly 4,000 acres north of the property to New York investors who renamed it the Atlantic Beach Hotel. On September 20, 1919, it was destroyed by fire.

Collection

Chapin Photographic Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects