Mr Flagler S St Augustine

Author : Thomas Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0813068738

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Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine by Thomas Graham Pdf

Arguably no man did more to make over a city--or a state--than Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of America's elite. Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine tells the story of how one of the wealthiest men in America spared no expense in transforming the country's "Oldest City" into the "Newport of the South." He built railroads into remote areas where men feared to tread and erected palatial hotels on swampland. He funded hospitals and churches and improved streets and parks. The rich and famous flocked to his invented paradise. In tracing Flagler's life and second career, Thomas Graham reveals much about the inner life of the former oil magnate and the demons that drove him to expand a coastal empire southward to Palm Beach, Miami, Key West, and finally Nassau. Graham also gives voice to the individuals history has forgotten: the women who wrote tourist books, the artists who decorated the hotels, the black servants who waited tables, and the journalists who filed society columns in the newspapers. Filled with fascinating details that bring the Gilded Age to life, this book will stand as the definitive history of Henry Flagler and his time in Florida.

Author : Thomas Graham
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813047560

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Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine by Thomas Graham Pdf

Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award Arguably no man did more to make over a city—or a state—than Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of America’s elite. Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine tells the story of how one of the wealthiest men in America spared no expense in transforming the country’s “Oldest City” into the “Newport of the South.” He built railroads into remote areas where men feared to tread and erected palatial hotels on swampland. He funded hospitals and churches and improved streets and parks. The rich and famous flocked to his invented paradise. In tracing Flagler’s life and second career, Thomas Graham reveals much about the inner life of the former oil magnate and the demons that drove him to expand a coastal empire southward to Palm Beach, Miami, Key West, and finally Nassau. Graham also gives voice to the individuals history has forgotten: the women who wrote tourist books, the artists who decorated the hotels, the black servants who waited tables, and the journalists who filed society columns in the newspapers. Filled with fascinating details that bring the Gilded Age to life, this book will stand as the definitive history of Henry Flagler and his time in Florida.

Author : Thomas Graham
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781561643004

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Flagler's St. Augustine Hotels by Thomas Graham Pdf

Near the end of the nineteenth century, Standard Oil millionaire Henry Morrison Flagler ventured to St. Augustine, Florida, America's Oldest City, and transformed it into an exotic travel destination for the social elite. He raised magnificent, fanciful Spanish Renaissance hotel palaces on what had been orange grove and salt marsh. Then he connected his creation with the outside world by building a modern railroad system. Flagler's hotels stand as monuments to innovation in architecture and engineering. They were the first large buildings in the United States constructed of poured concrete, and they pioneered use of novel amenities like electric lights, steam heat, and elevators. They are still a vital part of modern St. Augustine. The Ponce de Leon, Flaglers preeminent hotel, now houses Flagler College; the Alcazar now holds the City Hall and the Lightner Museum. Only the Casa Monica (previously called the Cordova) is presently a hotel.

Author : Edward N. Akin
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813065694

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Flagler by Edward N. Akin Pdf

From reviews of the first edition: "A succinct and informed account of [Flagler's] leadership in transforming Florida's economy."--American Historical Review "An important contribution to the understanding of Standard Oil's extended partnership and how the personal desire of Flagler led to the early development of Florida's Atlantic Coast."--The Historian Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913), the ambitious Gilded Age tycoon who designed and built much of Florida's fashionable east coast, rode to success on the rails. As John D. Rockefeller's closest adviser in the 1870s, Flagler helped assemble the Standard Oil empire. In this thoroughly researched biography, Akin shows that Flagler understood early in his career that cheap freight rates determined industrial profits. Portraying Flagler as an aggressive entrepreneur, Akin documents his shrewd negotiations to obtain reduced rates, rebates, and drawbacks from the railroads, thus assuring Standard Oil's national domination over oil transportation costs. Flagler drove himself as hard as he drove a bargain, obsessed with the desire to create a monument to himself that he called "my domain." His legacy was no less than modern Florida. In 1885, at the age of fifty-five, he turned his attention away from Standard Oil and began construction of the Ponce de León luxury hotel in St. Augustine, the city where he had honeymooned with his second wife. Realizing he could never fill its rooms unless better transportation with the North was available, he embarked on the second railroad venture of his lifetime, creation of the Florida East Coast Railway. Flagler's resort empire eventually included The Breakers in Palm Beach and the Royal Palm in Miami; his Atlantic coast railroad extended all the way to Key West, an engineering achievement that was called the "eighth wonder of the world." By the beginning of the twentieth century, Flagler dominated not just the resort and railroad industries in Florida but steamship and agricultural operations, too. Florida politicians gave his projects preferential treatment, even changing the state's divorce law so he could marry for a third time. Woven into this biography are details about Flagler's family, personality, three marriages, alienation from his only son, and devotion to the Presbyterian church--copy that fueled society gossip columns from New York to Palm Beach for decades. Edward N. Akin, author of Mississippi: An Illustrated History and other works on southern history, taught at Mississippi College in Clinton. His biography of Henry Flagler won the 1985 Phi Alpha Theta manuscript prize.

Author : Dr Sandra Sammons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781561648535

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Henry Flagler, Builder of Florida by Dr Sandra Sammons Pdf

An exciting biography about the man who changed Florida's east coast with his hotels and his Florida East Coast Railway. Henry Morrison Flagler was already a millionaire when he first visited Florida in 1878. He liked what he saw. He came back and built railroads along the east coast so that others could more easily come. And he built grand hotels so that those who came had a beautiful place to stay. By the end of his long and productive life, he had built a railroad all the way to the very end of the Keys. It arrived in Key West in 1912. Henry Flagler was very determined and practical. He met all the great challenges he set for himself. Ages 9-12 Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Author : Sidney Walter Martin
Publisher : Tailored Tours Publications Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : 0963124110

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Henry Flagler by Sidney Walter Martin Pdf

A study of the life and accomplishments of Henry Flagler who made his first fortune in oil and his second in the development of parts of Florida.

Author : Ross Barrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520343917

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Speculative Landscapes by Ross Barrett Pdf

Speculative Landscapes offers the first comprehensive account of American artists’ financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economy—Daniel Huntington, John Quidor, Eastman Johnson, Martin Johnson Heade, and Winslow Homer—Ross Barrett argues that the experience of property investment exposed artists to new ways of seeing and representing land, inspiring them to develop innovative figural, landscape, and marine paintings that radically reworked visual conventions. This approach moved beyond just aesthetics, however, and the book traces how artists creatively interrogated the economic, environmental, and cultural dynamics of American real estate capitalism. In doing so, Speculative Landscapes reveals how the provocative experience of land investment spurred painters to produce uniquely insightful critiques of the emerging real estate economy, critiques that uncovered its fiscal perils and social costs and imagined spaces outside the regime of private property.

Author : Canter Brown
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817359669

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Henry Bradley Plant by Canter Brown Pdf

The first biography of Henry Bradley Plant, the entrepreneur and business magnate considered the father of modern Florida In this landmark biography, Canter Brown Jr. makes evident the extent of Henry Bradley Plant's influences throughout North, Central, and South America as well as his role in the emergence of integrated transportation and a national tourism system. One of the preeminent historians of Florida, Brown brings this important but understudied figure in American history to the foreground. Henry Bradley Plant: Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South carefully examines the complicated years of adventure and activity that marked Plant's existence, from his birth in Connecticut in 1819 to his somewhat mysterious death in New York City in 1899. Brown illuminates Plant's vision and perspectives for the state of Florida and the country as a whole and traces many of his influences back to events from his childhood and early adulthood. The book also elaborates on Plant's controversial Civil War relationships and his utilization of wartime earnings in the postwar era to invest in the bankrupt Southern rail lines. With the success of his businesses such as the Southern Express Company and the Tampa Bay Hotel, Plant transformed Florida into a hub for trade and tourism--traits we still recognize in the Florida of today. This thoroughly researched biography fills important gaps in Florida's social and economic history and sheds light on a historical figure to an extent never previously undertaken or sufficiently appreciated. Both informative and innovative, Brown's volume will be a valuable resource for scholars and general readers interested in Southern history, business history, Civil War-era history, and transportation history.

Author : Henry Shaw Wyllie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Saint Augustine (Fla.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086410974

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St. Augustine Under Three Flags by Henry Shaw Wyllie Pdf

Author : Seth H. Bramson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614236344

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Hallandale Beach Florida by Seth H. Bramson Pdf

Beginning in 1897 with the arrival of Luther Halland, the story of Hallandale Beach is one of steady growth and enduring prosperity. Hallandale became a town during the great Florida boom of the 1920s, and in 1947, when its boundaries expanded to the Atlantic Ocean, Hallandale Beach became a city. Today, this quintessential South Florida community has grown to offer all the luxuries of a big city without losing any of its hometown charm. Balancing world-class restaurants and exciting entertainment with welcoming residential neighborhoods, Hallandale Beach truly has it all. Join South Florida expert Seth H. Bramson as he takes you on a journey through Hallandale Beach's proud past and budding future to show why, for more than ninety years, it has been Broward County's city of choice.

Author : Maggi Smith Hall
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781796082845

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Flavors of St. Augustine by Maggi Smith Hall Pdf

Flavors of St. Augustine, an Historic Cookbook offers over 200 extraordinary recipes and more than 100 beautiful pen and ink sketches for your enjoyment of St. Augustine, America’s oldest continuously occupied city, a city of five flags and a thousand flavors. At last recipes from all of St. Augustine’s historical periods have been carefully researched, compiled, and presented in a beautifully illustrated cookbook and handbook of history. Bring delicious recipes and fascinating stories from Timucua, Spanish, British, Minorcans, American Settlers, Flagler’s Gilded Age, Lighthouse Keepers, and others into your kitchen.

Author : Leslee F. Keys
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813063768

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Hotel Ponce de Leon by Leslee F. Keys Pdf

Historic St. Augustine Research Institute William L. Proctor Award Henry Flagler's opulent Hotel Ponce de Leon drew worldwide praise from the day its elaborately carved doors opened in 1888. Built in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style, the architectural and engineering marvel featured the talents of a team of renowned artisans, including the designs of architects John Carrère, Thomas Hastings, and Bernard Maybeck, electricity by Thomas Edison, and interior decoration and stained glass windows by Louis Tiffany. Hotel Ponce de Leon is the first work to present the building's complete history and detail its transformation into the heart of Flagler College. Leslee Keys, who assisted in the restoration, recounts the complicated construction of the hotel--the first major structure to be built entirely of poured concrete--and the efforts to preserve it and restore it to its former glory. The methods used at Flagler College have been recognized as best practices in historic preservation and decorative arts conservation, and today the campus is one of Florida's most visited heritage tourism destinations.

Author : Ann Colby
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439669013

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Wicked St. Augustine by Ann Colby Pdf

When Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in 1565, his New World survival kit included gambling, liquor and ladies for hire. For the next four hundred years, these three industries were vital in keeping the city financially afloat. With the cooperation of law enforcement and politicians, St. Augustine's madams, bootleggers and high-rollers created a veritable Riviera where tourists, especially the wealthy, could indulge in almost every vice and still bring the family along for a wholesome vacation picking oranges and gawking at alligators. Join historian Ann Colby's tour of spots not on the standard tourist map to discover hidden-in-plain-sight bordellos, speakeasies, casinos and the occasional opium den.

Author : Les Standiford
Publisher : Crown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400051182

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Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford Pdf

The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller, dreamed of a railway connecting the island of Key West to the Florida mainland, crossing a staggering 153 miles of open ocean—an engineering challenge beyond even that of the Panama Canal. Many considered the project impossible, but build it they did. The railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as “the Eighth Wonder of the World,” until its total destruction in 1935's deadly storm of the century. In Last Train to Paradise, Standiford celebrates this crowning achievement of Gilded Age ambition, bringing to life a sweeping tale of the powerful forces of human ingenuity colliding with the even greater forces of nature’s wrath.

Author : T. Frederick Davis
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849660406

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History of Jacksonville, Florida and Vicinity, 1513 to 1924 by T. Frederick Davis Pdf

Two times there was a wholesale destruction of Jacksonville's official records – in the War Between the States and by the fire of May 3, 1901. The author's effort in this work was to collect all of the available authentic matter for permanent preservation in book form. The record closes as of December 31, 1924. The record is derived from many sources – long forgotten books and pamphlets; old letters and diaries that have been stored away as family memorials of the past; newspapers beginning with the St. Augustine Herald in 1822 (on file at the Congressional Library at Washington) fragmentary for the early years, but extremely valuable for historical research; almost a complete file of local newspapers from 1875 to date; from the unpublished statements of old residents of conditions and outstanding events within the period of their clear recollection; and from a multitude of other sources of reliability. The search through the highways and the byways for local history was in the spare moments of the author stretching over a period of a score of years, a pastime "hobby" with no idea of making money out of it. No attempt has been made to discuss the merits of any incident, but only to present the facts, just as they were and just as they are, from the records and sources indicated.