The Don CeSar
Lodging · St. Pete Beach, Florida
A vast pink Moorish and Mediterranean Revival hotel standing alone on St. Pete Beach, opened in 1928 by Thomas Rowe as a monument to a lost love and known to everyone as the Pink Palace. It survived the Depression, served as an army hospital and then Veterans Administration offices, was abandoned and condemned in the 1960s, and was saved and restored by a citizens' campaign in 1973.
3400 Gulf Boulevard, St. Pete Beach, Florida, 33706, United States
A working hotel, open year-round. Public rooms and restaurants are accessible to non-guests; the beach in front is public.