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Item Title
The Breakers Hotel, South County Road, Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL
LocationSouth County Road,
Palm%252BBeach, FL
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS FL-228
Building/structure dates:
1926 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1970 subsequent work
Significance: The Breakers Hotel is important for being the last remaining structure of the Flagler System Hotel complex that once included the Royal Poinciana Hotel, as well as the Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine. Entered on the National Register 8/14/73.
Subjects
HotelsTravelVacations
Related Names
Schultze & Weaver
Flagler, Henry M.
Schultze, Leonard
Berry, Paul, Delineator
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. GENERAL VIEW FROM WEST (DISTANT)
2. GENERAL VIEW FROM WEST
3. VIEW FROM SOUTHWEST
4. VIEW OF FOUNTAIN ON PLAZA BEFORE WEST ENTRANCE FACADE
5. PLAZA FOUNTAIN, VIEW TO SOUTH
6. DETAIL OF PLAZA FOUNTAIN FIGURES--NYMPHS AND GOOSE BOY
7. DETAIL OF ONE OF THE FOUNTAIN FIGURES--GOOSE BOY
8. VIEW OF LAWN AND ENTRANCE PORTE COCHÈRE
9. VIEW OF ENTRANCE PORTE COCHÈRE
10. GENERAL VIEW OF EAST FACADE FROM SOUTH
11. VIEW FROM SOUTHEAST, SHOWING INTERSECTION OF SOUTH AND MAIN PAVILIONS
12. VIEW OF SOUTH PAVILION FROM WEST
13. TELEPHOTO OF SOUTH TOWER FROM NORTHWEST SHOWING PORTION OF WEST FACADE AND ROOF OF NORTH PAVILION
14. TELEPHOTO OF NORTH TOWER FROM NORTHWEST
15. ENTRANCE TO CENTRAL PATIO FROM GRAND LOGGIA
16. VIEW ACROSS CENTRAL PATIO TO WEST, SHOWING TERRACE AND STEPS OUTSIDE MAIN LOBBY
17. VIEW FROM STEPS OF GRAND LOGGIA ACROSS CENTRAL PATIO TO NORTHWEST
18. VIEW TO NORTH SHOWING MAIN LOBBY OR RECEPTION HALL, AND DESK
19. VIEW THROUGH MAIN LOBBY, SOUTH TO NORTH
20. VIEW TO SOUTH END OF MAIN LOBBY
21. CEILING OF MAIN LOBBY
22. NORTH OR DINING PROMENADE, VIEW FROM EAST
23. VIEW OF SOUTH PROMENADE FROM WEST
24. SOUTH PROMENADE FROM EAST
25. VIEW OF DINING ROOM
26. VIEW TO NORTHWEST INTO ROTUNDA DINING ROOM (added 1928)
27. LOOKING SOUTHEAST INTO ROTUNDA DINING ROOM (1928 addition)
28. VIEW OF ROTUNDA DINING ROOM FROM NORTHEAST
29. POLYCHROME CEILING, ROTUNDA DINING ROOM, WITH SKYLIGHT
30. VIEW NORTH TO SOUTH THROUGH GRAND LOGGIA OR MEDITERRANEAN ROOM
31. POLYCHROME CEILING DETAIL OF GRAND LOGGIA OR MEDITERRANEAN ROOM
32. DOORWAY, SOUTH LOUNGE OR GOLD ROOM
33. FIREPLACE, SOUTH LOUNGE OR GOLD ROOM
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