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Flagler Museum

Palm Beach, FL · Palm Beaches

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Henry Flagler built this 75-room white palace as a 1902 wedding gift for his wife Mary Lily, and the Beaux-Arts mansion still anchors the island the railroad baron's money put on the map. Behind the colonnade you walk through a marble-columned Grand Hall, gilded salons, and a music room with a working pipe organ, then out to the pavilion where his private railcar No. 91 sits gleaming. It is the clearest window in Florida into the Gilded Age that built Palm Beach, kept much as the Flaglers left it.

Highlights

Whitehall, a 75-room Gilded Age mansionMarble Grand Hall and gilded period roomsFlagler's private railcar No. 91 in the pavilionNational Historic Landmark on the Intracoastal

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