After building your pink palace on the beach of St. Pete in Florida, Thomas Rowe still could not defeat his true love, the opera singer, whom he met as a student. The employees of the Don Cesar hotel say that two lovers have re -united in their afterlife and still remain in the hotel.
The coast of the Persian Gulf in Florida is not white sugar beaches and turquoise tides. Under clear and salty air, his coastal legends are older than their shiny resorts and perfect postcards. And if there is one place on the beach of St. Pete, in which the past refuses to be buried, is in the Don Cesar hotel – better known to residents as Pink Palace.
This high, pink monument of decadence from the 1920s contains more than history in its walls. He maintains a miniature love story, the founder lost too early, and the strong spirits of those who have never really checked.
An effective start covered with a broken heart
When Estate Mogul, Thomas Rowe opened Don Cesar in 1928 on the beach near St. Petersburg near Tampa in Florida, it was the epitome of the luxury of the jazz era. Called the pink lady because of the color, he quickly became a playground for the opulent and notable – from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Al Capone.
But behind the shiny events and ocean views, a tragic love story was lurking, which would forever persecution of the corridors of this seaside palace.
When the legend is going, she fell in love with Lucinda de Guzman, a Spanish opera singer, whom he met while studying architecture in London in the 1890s. She appeared in Maritan, the opera, in which the hero was called Don César de Bazan – the name of the duty later gave her dream hotel.
In other versions they met at the opera or took her to see her on the first date, it is different. They would meet outside the fountain opera, planning their lives together.
But fate was rude. The Lucinda family, which was the Spanish nobility, forbade the match, and the lovers were cruelly separated, and their marriage plans fell apart. Rowe returned to the USA and married someone else, but she still sent her letters, but only one ever returned: pruning the newspaper announcing Lucind's death, with a basic, painful note: “My beloved Don Cesar.”
Death in a pink palace
In 1940, just over a decade after realizing his dream, Thomas Rowe suffered a sudden, deadly heart attack in his lobby. He never left his will, and the hotel was ruined by his wife until the army bought him to turn it into a hospital during the war.
Some say it's a broken heart that finally consumed him. Don Cesar moved from his hands – but it seems that he never really left the ditches.
In 1969, the hotel was completely abandoned, and the pink paint covered with graffiti, and the only guests who stayed were ghosts. At first they wanted to demolish the whole building, but fate would have different. In 1973 he opened again as a hotel after the owner of the franchise Holiday Inn bought it.
Today, both the staff and guests whisper from ghostly characters, saw them wandering in the corridor through the hotel. A man in an aged -fashioned linseed and Panama hat is often noticed walking along the courtyard or stopping on the large stairs or fountain, which he built as close to the fountain as possible in front of the opera. Some say that he saw him standing next to a lovely woman dressed in a flowing, classic Spanish dress, and her murky hair and eyes in search of forever.
Amazing meetings in the rooms
In addition to Thomas Rowe persisting at the hotel he built, it is also believed that some of the visiting people come from former patients as time as a war hospital and a recovery center.
Over the years of guests and employees who had unexplained meetings in Don Cesar, countless stories have appeared. The lights flicker for no reason. Traces echo in empty corridors. The door opens and closed of its own will.
More than one hostess reported that they see an elegant man in a hat, just to watch him disappear around the corner. Others say that a ghostly couple appears in the garden courtyard under the moonlight, standing in his hand, and then dissolve in the fog.
Don's eternal vigil
While some ghosts stick to the anger or unfinished business, Thomas Rowe's ghost seems to be bound by love. It is said that he wanders a pink palace not in anguish, but in the eternal search for a woman he lost.
But how true was the love story in the afterlife? No Playbill with Maritana mentions a woman named Lucind. Did he play London in the 1890s? Because it was a British opera, it makes sense that he saw her when he was a student in England.
Although Lucinda was not in Playbill as an opera singer, House of Guzmán is a real Castilian royal family.
According to some articlesThe story was not even told until it opens, and the tragic love story was a marketing strategy instead of something real. The story was apparently told in “Ghostly Encounters: True Stories of America's Inns and Hotels” by Frances Kermeen, and when she asked the story, she answered from her contact from the H Hotel.
Today St. Pete Beach develops as a relaxed, withdrawn escape. But when the twilight and the sun of the Persian bay falls under the horizon, the pink palace cast long shadows on the sand. At these moments, guests swear that the past comes alive – a timeless echo of love, losses and endless devotion.
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