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Company linked to Breakers resort adds two buildings with stores and apartments to its real estate portfolio on Royal Poinciana Way in Palm Beach.

The Breakers was known as The Palm Beach Inn when founder Henry Flagler first opened the oceanfront hotel in 1896.

UNCSA has received gifts totaling $750,000 to endow a distinguished professorship from staunch supporters and members of its board of trustees, Chancellor Brian Cole has announced. A gift of $500,000 from Michael and Amy Tiemann of Chapel Hill will endow a distinguished professorship in the Division of Liberal Arts. Their gift has been met with an additional $250,000 from UNCSA founder and Trustee Emeritus Thomas S. Kenan III.

Susan Salisbury Special to the Daily News Henry Morrison Flagler was a visionary, but even he probably could not have imagined what The Breakers, now a premier resort known worldwide, would become when he founded it 125 years ago. Flagler, who made his fortune as a partner in the Standard Oil company and as a developer and railroad pioneer, opened the Palm Beach Inn on Jan. 16, 1896. It was the only oceanfront hotel south of Daytona Beach and attracted the famous people of its day including th...