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The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum is a biographical and a historic house museum in Palm Beach, Florida. It tells of the life of Henry Flagler and his beautiful estate, Whitehall.

Henry Flagler is one of the founders of Standard Oil. He is a very wealthy man who helped make the state of Florida a permanent tourist destination. He built the Whitehall, which is the feature of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, in 1895 for his wife, Mary Lily Kenan.

The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum features the historic house that has been praised all throughout history. It has been called by the New York Herald in 1902 as ?more wonderful than any palace in Europe, grander and more magnificent than any other private dwelling in the world?. The National Geographic Traveler described it recently, more than 100 years later as an ?absolute must-see for visitors to Palm Beach?.
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