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Gen. James Patton Anderson Camp 1599
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HOLLAND HAOUSE HOTEL - 308 Evernia St. West Palm Beach, Florida
The Palm Beach Post Fri, Sep 7, 1923
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DYNES TO MANAGE HOLLAND HOUSE HOTEL
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Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Dawson Planning 100 room Hotel in Palm Beach
Management of the Holland Hotel
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At 308 Everaia street ou the lake front, will be transferred next week to H. J Dynes, of Fort Pierce, who bought the property last year. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Dawson, who leased and managed the Holland House for three seasons, will leave Monday to drive through to Hot Springs, Ark. where they will remain for about weeks. At the end of their stay at Hot Springs they will go to southern California to study the manner in which the tourist business is handled with a view in utilizing at their business here that they may be able to pick up, as well as to have a vacation trip
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They will return to West Palm Beach about the first of the year. During their absence, Mrs. Dawson probably will visit relatives in St. Louis, Mo.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dawson own a lot at Peruvian Avenue and County Road, Pam Beach, for which they have plans for a 100 room hotel building. The hotel enterprise has been financed but it is possible that an ocean front property may be used instead of the site on Peruvian Avenue. Plans for the hotel were by Architects Kitchell & Jacobs.
The Palm Beach Post
Mon, May 29, 1922
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The Holland House Hotel was pulled down in 1925 to make way for the Pennsylvania Hotel
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The Palm Beach Post
Mon, Mar 02, 1925
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TEN STORY HOTEL T0 REPLACE HOLLAND HOUSE
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Historic Landmark Will Give Place To $800,000 Lake Front Building
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FIREPROOF STRUCTURE TO CONTAIN 168 ROOMS
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H. J. Dynes To Be Associated With C. B, Gehring In ‘Pennsylvania’ Project
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The passing of an old landmark yesterday was seen in the announcement that the Holland hotel on the lake front at the foot of Evernia street, is soon to be replaced by an $800,000 ten-story hotel, to be known as the Pennsylvania. The present structure, typical of Florida in its early stages, is to be entirely torn down and replaced with a building in keeping with the present trend of Spanish architecture.
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Henry J. Dynes, present owner of the Holland, is associated in this new project with Charles ¥. Gehring, A New York and Atlantic City hotel man. Mr. Gehring is owner and editor of the Hotel Review, the most widely known magazine of its kind, and president of the Ritz Hotel company of Atlantic City. Mr. Dynes, in turn, has had 25 years experience in conducting hotels in Atlantic City, Milford, Pa., Fort Pierce and West Palm Beach.
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Harvey and Clarke are the architects for the new building according to the plan as outlined. Iit will be 10 stories high, facing Lake Worth.
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The Palm Beach Post Fri, May 28, 1926 ·
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The Pennsylvania Hotel, West Palm Beach’s largest and newest hostelry will open this summer for the first time. Workmen are now busy rushing the project to completion so that the formal opening may take place as scheduled.
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The new hostelry, overlooking Lake Worth on Flagler Drive, represents an investment of more than $1 million. It will be eight stories high and contains the latest conveniences and improvements of the best known metropolitan hotels. The hotel and grounds are owned by the Pennsylvania Holding Company of which Henry J. Dynes is president. Mr. Dynes formerly operated the Holland Hotel on the site where the new Pennsylvania now stands.