Pinellas County FlArchives Biographies.....Dennis, Nicholas L. September 15, 1883 - 
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. II   pg. 343  1923
Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present 

DENNIS, NICHOLAS L. is one of Saint Petersburg's most enterprising citizens, 
proprietor of a successful business, an active member of the Chamber of 
Commerce, the Civitan Club and prominent in fraternal circles. He is a charter 
member of the Knights Templars and a thirty second degree Scottish Rite Mason 
and a charter member of Egypt Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Tampa. He also 
belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Elks and was organizer and 
first monarch of Selama Grotto, M. O. D. R., of Saint Petersburg.
	He was born in Platanos, Greece, September 15, 1883. His education was 
acquired chiefly in the city of Constantinople, and his travels extended 
throughout Europe before he came to America in 1903. He has a fluent command 
of the French, Greek and Italian as well as the English.
	He learned catering by experience in Europe, in the Blackstone Hotel 
in Chicago, also at Martins and Delmonicos of New York, the New Willard and 
Shoreham Hotels of Washington, and as a youth served his apprenticeship with 
the Cook's hotel chain in Europe.
	It was in 1914 that Mr. DENNIS established his Saint Petersburg 
business, the Park Cafeteria, with 1,400 feet of floor space. Now the 
cafeteria covers 10,000 square feet of space, seats 400, and has a daily 
feeding possibility of 4000. The equipment is modern and complete throughout. 
The conveyors and dishwashing machinery were installed at a cost of over 
$10,000. The groceries and provisions storeroom will invoice, any day, upwards 
of $5000. The service is all that strong personality and intelligent careful 
management can make it. There are fifty modern hotel rooms in connection.
	In the summertime Mr. DENNIS operates the Belvedere Hotel and Casino 
at Chesapeake Beach, Maryland. There he caters to the best organizations of 
Washington, among them the Bar Association, Elks, Traffic Club, the Washington 
Board of Trade and fraternal organizations. The Belvedere has housing 
accommodations for more than a hundred people, while the dining room seats a 
thousand.
	Mr. DENNIS married Miss SOPHIE JANES, of Washington, D. C. There four 
children are HELEN, LEON, STELLA and NICHOLAS, Jr..


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