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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI12072506/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Group portrait at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Biltmore Hotel. Coral Gables, Florida
- Creator:
- Fishbaugh, W. A. (William A.)
- Publication Date:
- 1925-03-14
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 6 X 10 in.
Subjects
- Subjects / Keywords:
- Coral Gables (Fla.)--History--Pictorial works
Historic sites--Florida
Ground breaking ceremonies--1920-1930
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925
Flynn, Charles
Merrick, Eunice Peacock
Dockerell, Mrs.
McLendond, Lulu, Miss
Merrick, George E.
McLendon, Pope, Miss.
Flynn, Charles, Mrs.
Miami Biltmore Hotel & Country Club (Coral Gables, Fla.)
Hotels
- Coordinates:
- 25.7405556 x -80.2788889
Notes
- General Note:
- 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.
- General Note:
- Caption on verso: "Groundbreaking Biltmore Hotel, 1925. May 14, 1925. Breaking ground for Miami Biltmore. Coral Gables Federal Savings and Loan Association. Donated by Commissioner Bob Hildreth, 4-93. Eunice Merrick, Charles Flynn (center), William Jennings Bryan far right)."
- General Note:
- [note] Identified in the photograph are Charles Flynn and Mrs. George E. Merrick (center), and William Jennings Bryan (last man on right). In front row are Mrs. Charles Flynn, Miss Lulu McLendon, Mrs. Pope McLendon, and Mrs. Dockerell.
- General Note:
- (Ownership) Coral Gables Historical Resources Department
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