5672324 The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, 1933 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Breakers Hotel, South County Road, Palm Beach County, Florida, Italian Renaissance-style hotel. Opened as The Palm Beach Inn in 1896 by oil, real estate, and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler to accommodate travellers on his Florida East Coast Railway, the wooden structure burned down twice and this concrete design by New York architects Schultze and Weaver opened in 1926.); American, out of copyright.