Arizona Biltmore
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The Arizona Biltmore bills itself as the only hotel in the world with a
Frank Lloyd Wright influenced design. The building was actually designed by
one of his students Albert McArthur Chase and opened for business on
February 23, 1929.
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The building is built with precast concrete blocks molded on site
and referred to as "Biltmore Block". The block was molded using
local materials..
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The grounds feature many pools and this one has a large 92 ft long slide
right between the 2 towers at the far end. We stopped here for breakfast and
they just happened to be having a history tour of the facility so we joined
in.
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Even the carpets used in the building have geometric patterns similar to the
bricks.
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The facility was owned by the Wrigley's of chewing gum fame from 1930 to
1975. There are two 18 hole golf course and one 18 hole putting course on the
property.
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