The Breakers (hotel)




This article is about the hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. For the hotel in Long Beach, California, see Breakers Hotel (Long Beach, California). For the hotel in Sandusky, Ohio, see Hotel Breakers.








































Breakers Hotel Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Breakers CIMG0089.JPG



The Breakers (hotel) is located in Florida
The Breakers (hotel)



Show map of Florida



The Breakers (hotel) is located in the US
The Breakers (hotel)



Show map of the US

Location South County Road, Palm Beach, Florida
Coordinates
26°42′50″N 80°2′17″W / 26.71389°N 80.03806°W / 26.71389; -80.03806Coordinates: 26°42′50″N 80°2′17″W / 26.71389°N 80.03806°W / 26.71389; -80.03806
Area 105 acres (42 ha)
Built 1925[2]
Architect
Schultze & Weaver[2]
Architectural style
Renaissance Revival,[2] Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Revivals, Shingle Style
NRHP reference #
73000598[1]
Added to NRHP August 14, 1973

The Breakers Palm Beach is a historic, 538 room, Italian Renaissance-style hotel[3] in Palm Beach, Florida, United States. First known as The Palm Beach Inn, it was opened on January 16, 1896 by oil, real estate, and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler to accommodate travelers on his Florida East Coast Railway. It occupies the beachfront portion of the grounds of the Royal Poinciana Hotel, which Flagler had opened beside Lake Worth Lagoon facing the inland waterway in 1894. Guests began requesting rooms "over by the breakers," so Flagler renamed it The Breakers Hotel in 1901. The wooden hotel burned on June 9, 1903 and was rebuilt, opening on February 1, 1904. Rooms started at $4 a night, including three meals a day. Because Flagler forbade motorized vehicles on the property, patrons were delivered between the two hotels in wheeled chairs powered by employees. The grounds featured a nine-hole golf course. The hotel is located at 1 South County Road.




Contents






  • 1 Pre-Negro leagues, Winter League baseball team


  • 2 Second fire


  • 3 Awards


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Pre-Negro leagues, Winter League baseball team


In the winter of 1915/1916, the Breakers Hotel hired the services of Cyclone Joe Williams and many fellow team members of the Lincoln Giants pre-Negro League baseball team to take on another pre-Negro League baseball team made up of Indianapolis ABCs players hosted by the Royal Poinciana Hotel. The games hosted Negro League baseball stars of the day, including Ben Taylor, C.I. Taylor, Candy Jim Taylor, John Donaldson, Ashby Dunbar, Jim Jeffries, Jimmie Lyons, Bill Francis, Blainey Hall, Dick Wallace, Louis Santop, and Spot Poles.[4] One newspaper column claimed that "Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans, and hundreds of others, who never see a ball game outside of Palm Beach... (are) rooting hard for their favorite team.[5]



Second fire


Twelve years after Flagler's death, on March 18, 1925, The Breakers Hotel burned again, the fire was started by an electric curling iron that had been left on. The architectural firm hired by the Flagler heirs, Schultze and Weaver, modeled its 550-room replacement after the Villa Medici in Rome, this time working with New York-based Turner Construction Company and a local well-known Palm Beach contractor, Eugene Hammond, who built the first theater in West Palm Beach and worked on the Palm Beach estate built for Rodman Wanamaker by Addison Mizner (that would become a Kennedy winter retreat in 1933).


The contractors decided to abandon the wooden construction for fireproof concrete. Built by 1,200 construction workers, the hotel reopened on December 29, 1926, to considerable acclaim. The lobby ceiling was painted by Alexander Bonanno, a classically trained New York City artist who taught at Cooper Union.


Today, the hotel and grounds occupy 140 acres (57 hectares) beside the Atlantic Ocean.


This hotel influenced the Hotel Nacional in Havana, Cuba.


The Breakers Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. In 1973, the 105-acre (42 ha) listed area included 15 contributing buildings and one other contributing object.[1] On April 18, 2012, the AIA's Florida Chapter ranked the hotel seventh on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.[6]



Awards


The Breakers is currently a AAA five diamond rated resort and has maintained this rating since 1996.[7]



References



  • History of The Breakers


  • Florida, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, 2004, pg. 119





  1. ^ ab National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ abc "The Breakers". Florida Heritage Tourism Interactive Catalog. Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs. 2007-02-28. Archived from the original on 2007-03-10.


  3. ^ https://829a10fd1dd795f15a4b-ed7e52840cee658adcb45114cec3e8e7.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/filer_public/31/66/31662462-9b6a-4693-aa55-003d7dbb52db/summer_offer17febusa_final.pdf


  4. ^ "Palm Beach Notes" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 12, 1916, Page 4


  5. ^ "Palm Beach Weekly Review" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, February 19, 1916, Page 5, Columns 5 to 7


  6. ^ Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places


  7. ^ https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/local/two-palm-beach-hotels-honored-with-five-diamond-aaa-rating/Ufhg209bewp8iBmQePdWhI/




External links







  • The Breakers Hotel


  • Palm Beach County listings, Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs


  • "It's De Limit" Forbes article by Finn-Olaf Jones on The Breakers' architects Schultze & Weaver, April 24, 2006

  • The Breakers Historical Timeline


  • Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. FL-228, "The Breakers Hotel, South County Road, Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL", 33 photos, 1 color transparency, 1 measured drawing, 28 data pages, 3 photo caption pages, supplemental material

  • HABS No. FL-223, "The Breakers Hotel, Cottage, South County Road, Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL", 6 photos, 7 data pages, 1 photo caption page, supplemental material









Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Information security

Image
This article is part of a series on Information security Related security categories Internet security Cyberwarfare Computer security Mobile security Network security Threats Computer crime Vulnerability Eavesdropping Malware Spyware Ransomware Trojans Viruses Worms Rootkits Bootkits Keyloggers Screen scrapers Exploits Backdoors Logic bombs Payloads Denial of service Defenses Computer access control Application security Antivirus software Secure coding Secure by default Secure by design Secure operating systems Authentication Multi-factor authentication Authorization Data-centric security Encryption Firewall Intrusion detection system Mobile secure gateway Runtime application self-protection (RASP) v t e Information security , sometimes shortened to InfoSec , is the practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction of information. Th
Read more

章鱼与海女图

Image
本条目 可参照英語維基百科相應條目来扩充 。 （2014/5/25） 若您熟悉来源语言和主题，请协助参考外语维基扩充条目。请勿直接提交机械翻译，也不要翻译不可靠、低品质内容。依版权协议，译文需在编辑摘要注明来源，或于讨论页顶部标记 {{Translated page}} 标签。 本条目 需要擴充。 （2013年8月15日） 请協助改善这篇條目，更進一步的信息可能會在討論頁或扩充请求中找到。请在擴充條目後將此模板移除。 《 章鱼与海女 》（日语： 蛸と海女 ／ たことあま   Tako to ama ）是一幅由日本畫家葛饰北斋创作的浮世绘，出自1814年（文化4年）出版的艳本《喜能会之故真通》（日语： 喜能会之故真通 ／ きのえのこまつ   Kinoe no Komatsu ）。畫中有兩隻章鱼以觸手攻擊一名採珠的海女，並進行擬似戀獸癖的交媾行為。作品尺寸为6½" × 8¾" （16.51 cm × 22.23 cm）。 [1] 在此之前的类似作品还有北尾重政的艳本《謡曲色番組》及勝川春潮的艳本《艳本千夜多女志》等，有被北斋作为参考的可能性。 《章鱼与海女图》有不同英文翻译，一般称The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife，又作Girl Diver and Octopi、Diver and Two Octopi，Richard Douglas Lane称其为 Girl Diver and Octopi [2] ，Mathi Forrer 称其为 Pearl Diver and Two Octopi [3] ，Danielle Talerico 称其为 Diver and Two Octopi 。 [4] 目录 1 作品介绍 1.1 画中对话 1.2 解释 2 评价 3 影响 3.1 模仿作品 4 另见 5 参考来源 6 外部連結 作品介绍 画中对话 原文 译文 大蛸： いつぞハいつぞハとねらいすましてゐたかいがあつて、けふといふけふ、とうとうとらまへたア。てもむつくりとしたいいぼぼだ。いもよりハなをこうぶつだ。サアサア、すつてすつてすいつくして
Read more

New York City Police Department

Image
"NYPD" and "New York City Cops" redirect here. For other uses, see NYPD (disambiguation). Not to be confused with New York City Sheriff's Office or New York State Police. City of New York Police Department NYPD patch NYPD patrol officer's shield Flag of the New York City Police Department Common name New York City Police Department Abbreviation NYPD Motto Fidelis ad mortem (English: "Faithful Unto Death" ) Agency overview Formed May 23, 1845 ; 173 years ago  ( 1845-05-23 ) Employees 55,304 Annual budget US$5.6 billion (2018) Jurisdictional structure Operations jurisdiction New York City, U.S. Map of City of New York Police Department's jurisdiction. Size 468.484 square miles (1,213.37 km 2 ) Population 8,537,673 [1] Legal jurisdiction New York City General nature Local civilian police Local civilian agency Headquarters 1 Police Plaza Park Row Lower Manhattan (across th
Read more