Last year when we were in Tampa, we saw the Plant museum, which was based in the home of railroad magnate Henry Plant, who developed the west coast railroad line in Florida. We realized we should go to see the Flagler museum while we were in Palm Beach as it is a much bigger and nicer museum and based in the home of Henry Flagler, who built the east coast line, including the railroad that went down to the Florida Keys:
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| Cool clock in entry hall |
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| Library |
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| Music room |
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| Interior Courtyard |
Upstairs, there was a cool exhibit on the rise of department stores:
The last place we visited (in the pouring rain) was the pavilion, which houses Flagler's private rail car:
There was an unexpected powerful storm, so it took us over an hour to get back to our hotel and forced us to scrap our dinner plans, but everything was clear by Thursday and we headed back to Virginia.
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