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    The Hotel Roosevelt fire on December 29, 1963, was the worst fire that Jacksonville, Florida, had seen since the Great Fire of 1901, and it contributed...
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    The Roosevelt Hotel is a former hotel and a shelter for asylum seekers at 45 East 45th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City....
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  • Roosevelt Hotel may refer to: The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Hotel Roosevelt (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) The Roosevelt Hotel New Orleans The Roosevelt Hotel (New...
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  • In the early morning of December 29, 1963, the Hotel Roosevelt in downtown Jacksonville caught fire after a post-Gator Bowl party in the ballroom. It...
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  • Parliament of the United Kingdom. 1836 – First U.S. Patent Office fire in Blodget's Hotel. 1836 – Fire at Chartres Cathedral destroyed the sweet chestnut "forest"...
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    airport in the area. On December 29, 1963, a fire gutted the first couple of stories of the Hotel Roosevelt on Adams Street, killing 22 people, setting...
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    The Roosevelt New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a 504-room hotel owned by AVR Realty Company and Dimension Development and managed by Waldorf Astoria...
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  • The 2023 Makkah hotel fire occurred on May 19, 2023, when a fire took place in a hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. There were many Pakistani Umrah pilgrims...
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    in poor condition and poorly equipped. On December 29, 1963, the Hotel Roosevelt fire killed 22 people, the highest one-day death toll in Jacksonville...
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    employees at the Dupont Plaza Hotel (now San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, intentionally set a fire. The employees (Héctor...
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  • The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has documented several dozen hotel fires in the United States since the 1930s that have killed more than...
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    outside the Midwest. Hotel Roosevelt fire: costly 1963 fire in downtown Jacksonville History of Jacksonville, Florida List of historic fires Davis, Ennis (October...
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    acts as mayor was his handling of the Hotel Roosevelt fire in downtown. Although 23 people died, many other hotel guests survived. In 1964 he announced...
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving...
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    Eleanor Roosevelt. John Aspinwall Roosevelt II was the youngest child of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. His surviving siblings were Anna E. Roosevelt, James...
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    Roosevelt Island is an island in New York City's East River, within the borough of Manhattan. It lies between Manhattan Island to the west, and the borough...
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    University people NC State Wolfpack University Athletic Association Hotel Roosevelt fire Winderman, Ira (February 2, 1988). "CONTROVERSY IS THE NORM GATORS'...
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    List of battles with most United States military fatalities List of hotel fires in the United States List of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the...
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  • into the O'Keefe chain of hotels. The St. Gregory is supposedly based on the Roosevelt Hotel, although the old St. Charles Hotel is also cited as the basis...
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    who attempted to assassinate former President Theodore Roosevelt outside of the Gilpatrick Hotel in Milwaukee on October 14, 1912. Schrank was a wealthy...
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    The Carling (redirect from Hotel Roosevelt)
    The Carling, formerly known as the Carling Hotel and Hotel Roosevelt, is a historic building in Jacksonville, Florida, United States built in 1925. It...
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    served at and named after the hotel. General Foods, former owner of the Maxwell House brand, acknowledged that Roosevelt in fact had nothing to do with...
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    Friendship 7. 1963–1964: St. Augustine movement 1963 December 29: Hotel Roosevelt fire 1964 June 18: 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests 1966 August 6: Miami...
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  • in American territory since the Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico in 1986 and the Winecoff Hotel Fire in 1946. The building that housed Happy Land...
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  • Population: 201,030. 1962 - Civic Auditorium opens. 1963 - December, Hotel Roosevelt fire 1964 - September 10, Hurricane Dora occurs. 1967 Hart Bridge opens...
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  • hotel properties. The chain acquired the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans in 1965, renaming it the Fairmont Roosevelt, and then Fairmont New Orleans. The Fairmont...
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    remained a prestigious hotel for several decades; guests after the reopening included Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, Edwin Booth, William...
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    presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and John F. Kennedy. The St. George was so well known that Eli Danzig, who led the hotel's band, was invited...
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    New Ocean House (category Hotel buildings completed in 1888)
    American hotel located in Swampscott, Massachusetts. The hotel was built in 1888 to replace an earlier hotel that had been destroyed by fire. In 1902...
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    between 1894 and 1896 from a converted warehouse to a 3-story hotel shortly after the Deadwood fire of 1894, which destroyed the original 2-story wood-frame...
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