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Landmark Hotel

The Landmark Hotel and Casino was an off-strip innovation located across from the city’s convention center. A Kansas City developer named Frank Carroll bought land previously occupied by a gas station, and in 1962, construction began. Carroll’s creditors, however, soon ...

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National Historic Landmark-Plaza Hotel

National Historical Landmark-Plaza Hotel

Designed in the French Renaissance style and constructed from 1905-07, this massive 18-story white brick and marble structure is an outstanding example of American hotel architecture.

Located at the northern end of Fifth Avenue, and facing Central ...

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National Historic Landmark -Elephant Hotel

National Historic Landmark -Elephant Hotel

The Elephant Hotel, built and owned by Hachaliah Bailey, the first American to take exotic animals on tour for public entertainment, is associated with early American circus history.

Bailey began with an African elephant named Old Bet.

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National Historic Landmark - Tampa Bay Hotel

Headquarters of the army that invaded Cuba in the Spanish-American War (1898), and the news center for journalists participating in the "Correspondents War." The hotel was a pioneer effort in the Florida resort business, and is an excellent example of ...

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National Historic Landmark - Miami Biltmore Hotel

The Miami-Biltmore Hotel and Country Club, one of the most luxurious and modern hotels of its time, opened on January 14, 1926. Designed by the prominent New York architectural firm of Schulze and Weaver, the Miami-Biltmore is Coral Gables most ...

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National Historic Landmark - Ponce de Leon Hotel

The Hotel Ponce de Leon (Flagler College since 1968) was the first Florida's great winter luxury hotels and the flagship of Henry M. Flagler's railroad-hotel-land development empire in Florida. Henry Flagler made his fortune during the period immediately following the ...

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National Historic Landmark - Carew Tower-Netherland Plaza Hotel

National Historic Landmark - Carew Tower-Netherland Plaza Hotel

Built during the Great Depression, this hotel complex is one of the finest examples of skyscraper modernism in America.

The complex of the hotel and tower is a particularly coherent series of ...

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National Historic Landmark - Panama Hotel

The Panama Hotel is an example of the single-room occupancy hotels that characterized Seattle's historic nihomachi, today a part of the city's International District. The basement of the building includes the Hasidate Yu, the best surviving example of an urban ...

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National Historic Landmark - Dousman Hotel

Constructed 1864-65, this three story, buff-colored brick structure is the largest, most luxurious and last built of several large hotels in Prairie du Chien during the 19th century, while the town was an important river steamboat and railroad terminus. It ...

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National Historic Landmark - Mount Washington Hotel / Bretton Woods Monetary Conference

Mount Washington Hotel

Standing to the east, the Mount Washington Hotel was completed in 1902 as one of the largest, most modern grand hotels in the White Mountains, one of the few built in a single campaign. Designed by New York ...

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