The house featured a bookstore, grocery store, billiards room, family living quarters, and warehouses. After Juana's death in 1802 and Andrés's in 1806, the estate passed to Francisco Pellicer who managed the property on behalf of his under-age grandchildren until 1819 when he requested the government to relive him of guardianship and responsibility for maintaining the property. The three surviving Ximenez children shared ownership equally but sold their inheritance to Mrs. Margaret Cook between 1827 and 1830. In 1830, Mrs. Cook renovated the buildings into a boarding house, managed by Mrs. Eliza Whitehurst. A Northern guest, Clarissa C. Fairbanks, in 1832 turned out to be the future Mrs. Dr. Andrew Anderson, mother to the second Dr. Anderson, friend of Henry Flagler, and owner of Markland House.

In 1838 the home/business was sold to Mrs. Sarah Petty Anderson. In 1851 Miss Louisa Fatio began working for Mrs. Anderson and then bought it in 1855, maintaining the home/business until her death in 1875. Authoress of several books with St. Augustine settings, Constance Fenimore Woolson stayed at the Madame Fatio Boarding House for several winters in the 1870s. Prior to the building of the big hotels in St. Augustine, Miss Fatio's boarding house offered the best accomodations for visitors.

The Galleon Club began in 1924, later to evolve into the St. Augustine Art Association, was first organized in the Ximenex-Fatio home, and there was talk of turning it into the Longfellow University. The property remained in the Fatio family, and continued to operate as a boarding house until 1939 when The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in The State of Florida purchased and restoring it as a historic house museum. Today, the house continues to be owned and operated by women.

The Ximenex-Fatio House is one of the sites in St. Augustine to be added to the Historic American Buildings Survey published March 1, 1941. The Ximenez-Fatio House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. By the last 1970s, deferred maintenance of the buildings had to be addressed and numerous archeaological findings proved the import of this site. A 2002 archeaological dig dates European habitation on this lot back to the 1650s.]]> Don Andres Ximenez ]]>
Photograph 1 (c.1860): Tellier, Mark. St. Augustine’s Pictures of the Past: The Second Discovery. 1^st edition. Published by the author, 1979.

Photograph 2 (1937): Historic American Buildings Survey. Historic American Buildings Survey: Catalog of the Measured Drawings and Photographs of the Survey in the Library of Congress, March 1, 1941. Department of the Interior; National Park Service, 1941.

Photograph 3 (2023): Augusty, Jean-Marc. "Modern Ximenez-Fatio House." February 22, 2023.

Photograph 4 (2025): Owens, Katherine. "Florida Historic Marker." October 22, 2025.

Photograph 5 (2025): Owens, Katherine. "NRHP Marker." October 22, 2025.

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

Gordon, Elsbeth “Buff.” Walking St. Augustine: An Illustrated Guide and Pocket History to America’s Oldest City. Univ. of Florida Press, 2015.

Nolan, David. The Houses of St. Augustine. Pineapple Press, 1995.

Tellier, Mark. St. Augustine’s Pictures of the Past: The Second Discovery. 1^st edition. Published by the author, 1979.

Waterbury, Jean Parker. The Ximenez-Fatio House: “Long Neglected, Now Restored.” St. Augustine, FL: The St. Augustine Historical Society, 1985.

Winsberg, Morton D., compiler. Florida’s History through Its Places: Properties in the National Register of Historic Places. Institute of Science and Public Affairs/Florida State Univ., 1988.

The Ximenez-Fatio House Museum. "The Ximenez-Fatio House: Our Story."  https://www.ximenezfatiohouse.org/our-story/.]]> Aviles Street.]]> St. Augustine Historical Society's Research Library is next door to this building.]]> NSCDA-FL).]]>
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