The 1925 fire that leveled The Breakers as wind-swept embers burned path across the island
It's the 100th anniversary of the 1925 fire that leveled The Breakers as wind-swept embers burned a path across the island.
A century ago, The Breakers seemed lost to fire — but it rose from ashes
Fire swept The Breakers in 1925, reducing the iconic hotel to rubble. But the hotel would be rebuilt as a larger and more ...
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A century ago, The Breakers seemed lost to fire — but it rose from ashes
Fire was discovered in the fourth-floor room of Mrs. William Hale Thompson, the wife of Chicago’s then ... smoke billowing like a wet-leaf fire,” Frank Hennessey, a longtime Breakers office ...