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Hastings who also designed Memorial Presbyterian Church, Grace
Methodist Church, the Alcazar Hotel and Kirkside Mansion.

The inside was completed by artisans including the architect Thomas
Hastings, Tiffany, Maynard and Schladermundt. Visitors to the Ponce
de Leon Hotel included: Grover Francis Folsom Cleveland, Harriet
Lane, Mrs. U. S. Grant, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Levi Parsons Morton,
William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding and
Lyndon Baines Johnson. Business leaders were also part of the hotel
life including: General Horace Porter, John Jacob Astor, John D.
Rockefeller, George M. Pullman, and Henry Dexter.

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