<Tr> <Th> Renovated in </Th> <Td> 1998, 2002, 2011 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.resortsac.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Resorts Casino Hotel is a hotel and casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey . Resorts was the first casino hotel in Atlantic City, becoming the first legal casino outside of Nevada in the United States, when it opened on May 26, 1978 . The resort completed an expansion in 2004, adding the 27 - story Rendezvous Tower, and underwent renovations in 2011, converting the resort to a Roaring Twenties theme . </P> <P> The Resorts site was originally occupied by two three - story wooden Quaker rooming houses, The Chalfonte House and The Haddon House . </P>

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