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|a Legacy of Parks dedication ceremony, Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a Caption on recto: "Coral Gables -- Julie Nixon Eisenhower, at podium, addresses a crowd at ceremonies turning the Biltmore Complex over to the City of Coral Gables in 1973. Earlier plans would have had the property conveyed to a private developer who planned to erect four large towers around the Biltmore Building. -- Coral Gables Photo." |
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|a Recognizing the importance of having a luxury resort hotel in the city, George Merrick turned to John McEntee Bowman, President of the Biltmore Hotel chain. The New York firm of Leonard Schultz and S. Fullerton Weaver was selected by Bowman to design the hotel and ground was broken in 1925. At cost of $10 million, The Miami-Biltmore Hotel and Country Club, boasting a golf course and 350 rooms, officially opened on January 15, 1926. At the time, the hotel’s pool was the largest hotel pool in the United States. The magnificent tower is modeled after the Giralda Tower from the Cathedral of Seville in Spain. In November of 1942, The Miami-Biltmore Hotel and Country Club was turned over to the United States of America for use as a hospital that opened in March of 1943. In 1946 the hotel became an Army general hospital and the Veterans Administration (VA) took over in July of 1947. The VA Hospital was closed in 1968 with ownership eventually being transferred to the City of Coral Gables in 1973. A grand re-opening of The Biltmore took place in December 31, 1987, 61 years after it first opened. |
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|a (Ownership) Coral Gables Historical Resources Department |
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|u http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
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|a No copyright - United States |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Florida International University, |c City of Coral Gables, |d 2012. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a Coral Gables (Fla.)--History--Pictorial works. |
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|a Legacy of Parks Program (U.S.). |
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|a Eisenhower, Julie Nixon. |
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|a Historic sites Florida. |
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|a Miami Biltmore Hotel & Country Club (Coral Gables, Fla.). |
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|a dpSobek |c Coral Gables Memory |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI11070854/00001 |y Electronic Resource |
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|a http://dpanther.fiu.edu/sobek/content/FI/11/07/08/54/00001/FI11070854 (1)_thm.jpg |
