Flagler's St. Augustine Hotels - Graham, Thomas
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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,…mehr

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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.
Autorenporträt
Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. served as a senior US diplomat in every major international arms control and nonproliferation negotiation in which the United States took part from 1970 to 1997. In 1995, he shared with Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala of Sri Lanka, president of the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference, the Trainer Award for Distinction in the Conduct of Diplomacy from Georgetown University. Ambassador Graham has taught at a number of prestigious universities including the University of Virginia School of Law, Georgetown University, the Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford University, the University of Washington, Oregon State University, the University of Tennessee, and Dartmouth University. Ambassador Graham has also written extensively, including some 12 books and nearly 100 articles. His books include Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law; Unending Crisis: National Security Policy after 9/11; The Alternate Route: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones; America: The Founders' Vision; and the novels Sapphire: A Tale of the Cold War and On Tyranny and Crisis, the story of an attempted coup in the US. Ambassador Graham's professional website is www.thomasgraham.info.