5 Jaw-Dropping Gilded Age Mansions
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Henry Flagler gained fortune as co-founder of Standard Oil, but the industrialist later invested his profits in Florida's transportation infrastructure and development. | | |  | | Palm Beach, Florida |
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| Though his groundbreaking Overseas Railroad to Key West was unfortunately derailed by a hurricane in 1935, his vision and ambition are the reason we have the Overseas Highway today. Visitors to the Sunshine State should also stop through Palm Beach to tour Whitehall, Flagler's magnificent winter retreat completed in 1902. The tycoon commissioned this 75-room Beaux Arts mansion as a wedding present for his third wife, Mary Lily, and the profligate pair hosted extravagant parties here until the magnate's death in 1913. Today, visitors can get a glimpse into the world of the rich and influential figures of the Gilded Age as they step beyond its white columned exterior and into its glorious marble hall to tour the period rooms where guests would have dined and danced the evenings away. |
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