Epic Miami Residences & Hotel (Miami, Florida)

 hotel, condominium

200 Biscayne Boulevard Way
Miami, FL 33131
(305) 400-7399
epicmiami.com/html/index.php

Luxury hotel and condo complex built on the site of the demolished Dupont Plaza Hotel.

Built roughly on the site of Miami's very first grand hotel, the Royal Palm, built by Henry Flagler in 1897 to lure people down via his new rail service. "What separated Miami from other frontier communities was Henry M. Flagler’s magnificent Royal Palm Hotel.
Standing five stories tall (its rotunda in the center added another story to the structure), the yellow frame building was topped by a red mansard roof and counted among many prominent features a 578-foot long verandah. The building contained more than 400 rooms. Soon after it opened in January 1897, the Royal Palm became a popular resort for America’s Gilded Age princes, including John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and the Vanderbilt family."