Flagler Museum

Infobox_nrhp
name = Henry Morrison Flagler House; Whitehall
nrhp_type = nhl


caption=Henry M. Flagler Mansion
location = Palm Beach, Florida, USA
lat_degrees = 26
lat_minutes = 42
lat_seconds = 51
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 80
long_minutes = 2
long_seconds = 30
long_direction = W
locmapin=Florida
built = 1900-1901
architect = Pottier & Stymus, Carrère and Hastings
architecture = Beaux Artscite web|url=http://flaglermuseum.us/html/whitehall.html |title=Flagler Museum - Whitehall]
designated = February 16, 2000 [http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=957812452&ResourceType=Building Whitehall (Henry M. Flagler House)] at [http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl National Historic Landmarks Program] ]
added = December 5, 1972
refnum = 72000345cite web|url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/FL/Palm+Beach/state.html|title=National Register of Historical Places - Florida (FL), Palm Beach County|date=2007-09-22|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = non-profit

Flagler Museum, also known as Whitehall, is a 55-room mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States. The building is listed [ [http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/geo-flor/36.htm National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary] accessed on June 13, 2006] on the National Register of Historic Places.

Henry Flagler, one of the founders of Standard Oil, built Whitehall for his wife, Mary Lily Kenan, in 1902. The architects were Carrère and Hastings. It wa a winter residence, and Henry gave it to Mary Lily as a wedding present. They would travel to Palm Beach each year in one of their own private railcars, one of which (#91), was restored to its original condition and is sitting in the Flagler Museum's new Beaux Arts style pavilion. [ [http://www.flaglermuseum.us/index.html Whitehall Flagler Museum] ]

Whitehall was used as a hotel after 1925 and was saved from demolition by one of Henry Flagler's granddaughters Jean Flagler Matthews. Her father, Harry Harkness Flagler, had died in 1952. She established the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum non-profit corporation which purchased the building in 1959, opening it as a museum in 1960.

When it was completed in 1902, Whitehall, hailed by the New York Herald as "more wonderful than any palace in Europe, grander and more magnificent than any other private dwelling in the world." Today, Whitehall is a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as the Flagler Museum, featuring guided tours, changing exhibits, and special programs. The Museum is located at Cocoanut Row and Whitehall Way, Palm Beach.

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* [http://www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/designations/samples/fl/flagler.pdf National Historic Landmarks Survey] , March 29, 2004 reproduced as a specimen application for listing "(accessed June 13, 2006)"
* [http://www.flheritage.com/facts/reports/places/index.cfm?fuseaction=ListAreas&county=palm%20beach Palm Beach County listings] at [http://www.flheritage.com Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs]