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- Collection: Photographic Record of Local Places
The Spanish laid-out the street system of St. Augustine in the First Spanish Period. They did not give streets formal names, but rather referred to…
Opened on December 25, 1888, the Alcazar is the sister hotel to Henry Flagler's Hotel Ponce de Leon. It was designed by the same architects, and…
1870 marks the year Clarissa Fairbanks Anderson began construction on the Anderson Cottage, built for guests visiting during the winter. Dr. Anderson,…
Major Charles Wilhelm Bulow from South Carolina bought the property in 1821 from an heir of a Mr. John Russell who had acquired the land as part of a…
The park was started in 1893 by a man named Everett Whitney with a sulfer spring that he poured gasoline into and ignited to create a blue flaming…
Casa Monica opened on January 1, 1888, with 138 rooms made of poured concrete and in the Moorish-Revival style first used on the Villa Zorayda. Four…
Before the construction of the large coquina fort, there were a series of nine wooden watchtowers/forts used to defend St. Augustine (such as Fort San…
The laying of the corner stone of the current church was in 1793 and the church was completed in 1797. It became a cathedral in 1873 when St.…
The Spanish laid-out the street system of St. Augustine in the First Spanish Period. They did not give streets formal names, but rather referred to…
Coquina has a long history in St. Augustine that started at the quarries. Coquina is malleable when wet, meaning, during the quarrying process the…