Alicia Hospital

Alicia Hospital

Flagler Hospital

Flagler Memorial Hospital

1890

May 11, 1916

1921

1989

2000

2001

2003

2008

2019

2023

The original building, replaced building, and current building complex have always been intended for the use as a hospital.

The original location of Alicia/Flagler Hospital is now condominiums.

Advocated by Henry Flagler starting in 1888 was the need for proper medical care in St. Augustine. The St. Augustine Hospital Assocation, under the chairmanship of Dr. Andrew Anderson, raised money to buy an existing structure for conversion and the building that was purchased was the home of Dr. Sloggett on Marine Street south of St. Francis Barracks. The hospital was named Alicia, in honor of Henry Flagler's second wife. In 1905, the hospital was renamed Flagler. Flagler had donated the bulk of the money for the purchase of Dr. Sloggett's home.

The original Flagler Hospital burned down on May 11, 1916, was rebuilt, and reopened, January 5, 1921 with monies from a very generous bequeathal by Mary Lily Kenan Flagler. There were additional funds raised by the Ladies' Hospital Auxilary that assisted with the building of the new hospital. This time the building was built not of wood but of stucco with a red tile roof.

The needs of the community led to the building of a new hospital complex on US 1 South, just south of the intersection with SR312 in the 1980s and the hospital offically moved into its new space in 1989. The address for Alicia/Flagler Hospital was officially 11 Tremerton Street and right on the bayfront expanding out to Marine Street. This land is now occupied by a gated condominium community. In 2004, an archaelogical dig at this site uncovered a long-forgotten graveyard affiliated with the La Punta Mission from the 1st Spanish Period. Most of the burials were of Native Americans, likely displaced Yamassee Indians who were known to have moved to the La Punta mission. There is a historic easement behind the gates to protect the graves with a historic marker at the entrance to the community.

With the move to a much larger space, specialized medicine in the following areas were added to the services offered at the Marine Street location: cancer, heart and vascular conditions, women's health, spinal injuries, and imaging. In 2000, the hospital was again expanded and additional services offered, and more buildings were built in 2001 and 2003. A major expansion in 2019 lead to the rebranding of the Hospital as Flagler Health+ because now there were satelitte hospital services in other parts of St. Johns County with some services expanded to Volusia and Putnam counties. In 2023, UF Health took over the Flagler Hospital network. Flagler Hospital is now a satellite to the UF Health network/medical college located in Gainesville, FL, known as UF Health Flagler Hospital and UF Health St. Johns (for the previously created satellite health centers).

Since 2023, Flagler Hospital and affiliated locations are part of the UF Health network.

The hospital does a policy for visitors. For information, please refer to their Patients and Visitors Guide.

UF Health Flagler Hospital
400 Health Park Blvd.
St. Augustine, FL 32086
UF Health St. Johns - UF Health

The original building and the 1916-1921 building faced onto Marine Street.

The original building and the 1916-1921 building backed up to the Matanzas River.

The current Flagler Hospital faces US1-South and backed up onto the Matanzas River.

The following books, articles, websites, and photographers were used to find the above photographs or illustrations:

Map 1 (1952): Vollbrecht, John L. St. Augustine’s Historical Heritage as Seen Today…With Historical Notes on the Oldest House. Photography by J. Carver Harris. Foreword by David R. Dunham. St. Augustine, FL: The Record Press/J. Carver Harris, 1952.

Photograph 1 (1908): Bowen, Beth Rogero, and the St. Augustine Historical Society. St. Augustine in the Gilded Age. Acadia Publishing, 2008.

Photograph 2 (c.1940s): Bowen, Beth Rogero, and the St. Augustine Historical Society. St. Augustine in the 1930s and 1940s. Acadia Publishing, 2019.

Photograph 3 (2025): Owens, Katherine. "Where Flagler Hospital Was." December 17, 2025.

Photograph 4 (2025): Owens, Katherine. "Historic Plaque." December 17, 2025.

Photograph 5 (2009): Harvey, Karen. St. Augustine Enters the Twenty-First Century. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company, 2010.

The following books, articles, and/or websites were used to find information about this location:

Bowen, Beth Rogero, and the St. Augustine Historical Society. St. Augustine in the Gilded Age. Acadia Publishing, 2008.

Bowen, Beth Rogero, and the St. Augustine Historical Society. St. Augustine in the Roaring Twenties. Acadia Publishing, 2012.

Bowen, Beth Rogero, and the St. Augustine Historical Society. St. Augustine in the 1930s and 1940s. Acadia Publishing, 2019.

Harvey, Karen. St. Augustine Enters the Twenty-First Century. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company, 2010.

Ponce de Leon Celebration First Week in April: St. Augustine, Florida. City Commission of St. Augustine on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, Printed by The Record Company, [1929].

UF Health: University of Florida Health. “About Us.” December 2, 2025. https://ufhealth.org/uf-health-st-johns/about-us.

Flagler College’s Rare Books, Floridiana & Institutional Repository are neither the original nor current copyright owner for the photographs. Please contact the publisher or source cited for each photograph to obtain a copy and/or permission to reproduce these items.

The following St. Augustine Fiction books feature these buildings as a location:

All the Salt in the Sea
Bad News Travels
Best Behavior
Fish of Souls
Grandmother in Cellophane
I'll Be Home for Peacemas
The Relic
Rising Behavior
Secret Missions

This record was last updated on December 17, 2025.