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11/08/10 09:45

Friday I returned to the new Marriott Marquis for lunch, during which the mayor of Miami spoke. "You are doing more than opening a hotel," he said of J.W. Marriott Jr. "You are opening a window of hope that things will be better for Miami and South Florida."

Jeez, I thought, it's just a hotel. But then I remembered the photographs I'd seen out in the hall. They were old black-and-white shots of Henry Flagler's The Royal Palms Hotel, which stood on the site of the new Marriott. Flagler, railroad man turned hotelier, was the father of modern Florida, a state where hotels are more than just lodgings, they are our most historic, aesthetic and iconic structures. The Breakers. The Biltmore. The Vinoy. The Casa Monica. Hotels are to Florida what chateaus are to France. And, unlike in France, we keep building them.

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