Biltmore Hotel Miami Coral Gables
Landmark Spanish Revival resort with a Seville-inspired bell tower and a storied, allegedly haunted past.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables centers on a loud party on the thirteenth floor in 1929, where a gangster known as Fatty Walsh spent the wild years of the Florida land boom gambling and drinking, and a dice game that turned violent. You'll hear about the footsteps and swinging doors people started noticing on that floor afterward, and about the hotel's later turns as an army hospital and a veterans hospital before it reopened for guests in 1987. Ride the elevator and watch where it stops.
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