97. The Palm Beach Chronicles | Winter White Houses
Done & Dunne
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4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We continue our investigation this week in Palm Beach with a little dip into the two homes known as Winter White Houses – La Querida and Mar-a-Lago, each with its own storied history. La Querida was the Kennedys’ winter place for over 60 years with many architectural spiderwebs, including Addison Mizner and Maurice Fatio. Mar-a-Lago was built by Marjorie Merriweather Post as one of her PB homes, where she lived for almost 50 years. Donald Trump will acquire this property in 1985, right as Dominick Dunne is coming to investigate.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. |
| 0:11.2 | Thank you for tuning in to this edition of the Palm Beach Chronicles, where we will be exploring a bit about a few of the winter white houses to grace these sunny shores of Palm Beach |
| 0:23.6 | and all their rich histories. Before we begin this episode, I have a huge thanks to give to our |
| 0:30.9 | newest supporters over at patreon.com slash done and done. Holy cats. All the good things happening over there early and ad free episodes |
| 0:40.8 | bonus episodes too so grateful for each of our supporters including this week in my spyglass |
| 0:48.1 | big thanks to christine c aha stephanie L. So grateful to you. Thank you for your support, simply the best you are. |
| 1:01.0 | Friends, what an episode today. We're going to take a little tour through a few seasonal White House locations. |
| 1:08.7 | Presidents do like to vacation and they will spend their time in many areas |
| 1:13.5 | of the United States. Today, we focus down on two homes that both have their time in the presidential |
| 1:20.4 | sun, both in Palm Beach, both with incredible histories. First up, Le Quirida. This home is used by the Kennedy family |
| 1:30.5 | for 62 years, with many stories in its walls, and then Marlago, built by the legendary |
| 1:38.3 | heiress and socialite Marjorie Maryweather Post and her then-husband, financier E.F. Hutton. |
| 1:45.8 | By the time their legendary home is being sold in 1985 to Donald Trump, |
| 1:51.4 | guess who is right there in Palm Beach hot on the scene to report about it? |
| 1:56.7 | You know it. Our man Nick. |
| 1:59.2 | Let's investigate. |
| 2:21.2 | Music You know it, our man Nick. Let's investigate. I mean, who can't use a vacation every now and then? |
| 2:26.2 | You like vacations? I like vacations. Presidents like vacations. |
| 2:32.3 | Seasonal white houses are not a new thing for presidents, not by a long shot. |
| 2:36.3 | These seasonal white houses houses elsewhere besides Washington, |
| 2:43.8 | D.C., happen in all kinds of regions throughout the United States. Ulysses S. Grant had his winter White House in Long Branch, New Jersey, just right on the Jersey shore, where he will |
| 2:49.5 | spend summers from 1869 to 1877. |
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