If you have any old/historic photos of the Biltmore and/or of your family at the hotel, please send them to us and we will post them. We are especially looking for photos of the interior of the hotel before World War II before all the furniture was removed when the Biltmore housed the military.
Biltmore Entrance, Vintage Photo
This is part of the Biltmore lobby where the original entrance was,
south side.
What a lovely antique sideboard at the Biltmore Hotel.
I took this photo with no flash and what a lovely warm glow to this
beautiful banquet room, the Starlight, at the Biltmore
The lovely red couch at the Biltmore and the beautiful wood floor.
Look carefully in this cozy meeting room at the walls; there is wall
paper with beautiful crown molding.
A unique rounded banquet room, the Carriage Porch, at the Biltmore.
A lovely fireplace located in the Biltmore.
It pays to look up at the Biltmore Hotel! Look at this lovely
stained glass ceiling in one of the banquet rooms, the Tiffany ballroom,
a full 13,000 square foot!
Start your Biltmore dinner with a bottle of wine and bread.
One of the many hallways in the grand Biltmore.
I love dining at the Biltmore, delicious food, wonderful ambiance
and always great service.
This lovely painting of a young woman is located in in the dining
room of the Biltmore.
I heard her ghost roams the upstairs! ;-)
Having fun at the Biltmore Lobby Bar on Thanksgiving Day!
A most lovely staircase at the Biltmore.
A visit to the Biltmore is never complete until you see their delightful historical museum of the wonderful history dating back to the late 1800's.
Spooks, ghosts and goblins abound at this Biltmore window!
The Belleview Biltmore Hotel's roof color was originally
red. See first two postcards below. Later on it was changed to green.
Mr. Caithaness lived in the Biltmore while he was the bookkeeper and golf course starter. When walking in the entrance the golf course side, his room was down the right side hallway.
The three photos below are of Chester Pysz, Michigan, who was at the Belleview Biltmore in World War II in 1943 when the hotel housed military service people where they trained. Mr. Pysz served in the United States Air Force and was a radio operator/gunner on a B-26 bomber 320th bomb group - 441 squadron (62 combat missions) Photos are courtesy of his son Jim Pysz.
This eagle was photographed by Renee Burell as it flew over the Belleview
Biltmore Hotel golf course!
SPECIAL BILTMORE HOTEL PHOTO ALBUM
To see the 30 photos that were given as a photo album to the
Town of Belleair in conjunction with the amendment to the preservation ordinance
to save the interior click: Special
Photo Album Our Save the Biltmore Preservationists in conjunction
with this web site www.savethebiltmore.com
requested this amendment as we feel it is very important to save the beautiful
Victorian interior of the Biltmore as well as the exterior of the hotel.
There are seven photos from 1985. To view them,
click: 1985 Photos of the
Belleview Biltmore
Scroll down to picture #4 for a large photo of the
Belleview Biltmore in its early days: http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/index2.html?f=search-fullrecord&idx=10&idxcount=1&results_display_mode=&collectionid=Any&collectionid_id=D32.8290
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Clearwater Beach Hotel.............is... |
..... now demolished! |
"Hiller has worked as a development consultant on several projects, including the Marriott Suites Clearwater Beach on Sand Key and the Sandpearl Resort and Belle Harbor projects on Clearwater Beach."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/04/Northpinellas/Hotel_s_new_suitors_l.shtml
Readers note: The Sandpearl is the resort that is REPLACING the once beautiful but now demolished Clearwater Beach Hotel. Rory Hiller is the developer who wanted to purchase the Biltmore and put in ultra modern condo/hotel units which this web site is against!
