Hotel Ormond: A Lost Treasure

This book is a story of a hotel with a 104-year history. It is also a tribute not only to John Anderson and Joseph Price, who built the hotel in 1887, and Henry M. Flagler, who purchased and enlarged the hotel, but also to all the people associated with the Hotel Ormond over the years. Henry M. Flagler had a vision of Florida's potential as a winter resort, and from the 1880s until his death in 1913 he spent a good part of his fortune (made from the original Standard Oil Company) making his vision a reality. In 1890, Flagler bought the Hotel Ormond and it became a famous part of the Flagler System of hotels, which ran from St. Augustine to Key West and tied into Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. For over a hundred years the hotel was the skyline signature in Ormond Beach. It entertained the great and near great in every walk of life, saw the city of Ormond Beach grow, and spanned the years of vast changes in the society it served. The Hotel Ormond ruled supreme for many years, however in 1992 the hotel became the victim of the wrecking ball and the historic hotel was gone forever.Donald D. Spencer is the author of 'Hotel Ormond: A Lost Treasure' with ISBN 9780892183609 and ISBN 0892183608.