Belleview Biltmore, Belleair, @1900. – Swampy’s Florida Train Stops.
Henry Plant’s train rumbles away from Henry Plant’s Belleview Biltmore Hotel in Belleair around 1900. At this time the train actually entered the building. While working to save the Biltmore, once the largest wooden occupied structure in the world, I got to tour through the structure and saw the brick area for access to the train, then otherwise blocked off.
Our efforts to save the structure failed to those from out-of-state with their own plans and most of the structure was demolished.
This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley.
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This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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