When visiting any destination tourists first always target the museums for they are the storehouse of knowledge and help them in imagining the different stages of evolution that the city or state have gone through. A free entry to Flagler Museum, which is considered as a National Historic Landmark sounds like a cherry on top of a cake. On 5th of June’2009 the gates of Whitehall at Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL would be open to all, in order to celebrate Founder’s Day in honor of Jean Flagler Matthews who was the grand-daughter of Henry Flagler, the famous Standard Oil partner. She rescued the estate from demolition and helped it become what it is today.
At Flagler Museum visitors would be able to view the vast collection of art, furniture and historical objects. It is one of the greatest influencing Gilded Age mansions in the world. The gilded age in America symbolizes that period when it witnessed substantial growth in the population and the extravagance of the upper classes was very much evident. This wealth expansion was one of the results of industrial and population expansion during the post-Civil War and post- Reconstruction era. To understand more about this phase that America witnessed, you should make a visit to Whitehall in Flagler Museum, FL on this approaching 5th June.
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