After Anderson's wife's death, and his remarriage to his wife's friend who had come to St. Augustine to care for the three Anderson daughters, Clarissa Cochrane Fairbanks from New Hampshire, Anderson was desperate to build a new, more comfortable home for his family. He moved his family out of the rented wooden house on Hospital (now Aviles) Street where they lived. Markland Hall began being built from coquina, but the construction did not finish because Anderson died in late 1839 during a yellow fever epidemic. Clarissa Anderson completed construction of a smaller version of the home in 1842. Markland countinued to undergo various changes to keep up with both maintenance and improvements, such as a major exterior paint job in 1858. 

In the mid-1860s, Clarissa Anderson's son, Andrew Anderson Jr., back home in St. Augustine after completing medical school, and decided that another source of income was needed after the 1868 freeze killed off many of the carefully cultivated trees that had been planted after the 1835 freeze. The new income stream was turning land east of Markland on King Street, in 1870, into a new, two-story rentable cottage, called Anderson Cottage. 

After his mother's 1881 death, in 1885, Anderson Jr. sold the eastern portion of the estate to Henry Flagler for $20,000. He remained in residence, mostly, at Markland House, but rented out the house during the winter. Flagler later acquired the surrounding marshland and more pieces of the Markland estate including those owned by Anderson Sr.'s daughters. Anderson Cottage was moved to its current location on Sevilla Street as it did not fit with the architectural style of the Ponce de Leon Hotel that was in contruction at that point. 

Anderson Jr. continued work on Markland with conversations in 1895 with New York architect, Charles A. Gifford, to double the square footage of the house to include 14 bedrooms and a two-story brick structure added to the west wing. Gifford also
built a Billard Room separate from the main house that now serves as the St. Augustine branch of the Florida Public Archaeology Network. When Anderson Jr. died in 1924, Herbert E. Wolfe, the mayor of St. Augustine at the time, purchased Markland House. 

In 1968, the year that the former Hotel Ponce de Leon opened as Flagler College, Markland House was purchased by the school. Markland House was added to the  National Register of Historic Places in 1978.]]> Dr. Andrew Anderson, Sr.]]> The following books, articles, websites, and photographers were used to find the above photographs or illustrations:

Photograph 1 (1870): Waterbury, Jean Park. Markland. St. Augustine, FL: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1989.

Photograph 2 (1902): Waterbury, Jean Park. Markland. St. Augustine, FL: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1989.

Photograph 3 (1989):Waterbury, Jean Park. Markland. St. Augustine, FL: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1989.

Photograph 4 (2025): Zufelt, Holly. "Markland." August 1, 2025.

Photograph 5 (2025): Zufelt, Holly. "Markland Plaque." August 1, 2025

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

Graham, Thomas. The Awakening of St. Augustine: The Anderson Family and the Oldest City, 1821-1924. St. Augustine, FL: Saint Augustine Historical Society, 1978.

Murray, James R. “Markland.” Edited by Bernard Fisher. HMdb.org: Historical Marker Database. October 30, 2020. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=77212.

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

Visit St. Augustine. “Markland House.” https://www.visitstaugustine.com/thing-to-do/markland-house.

Waterbury, Jean Park. Markland. St. Augustine, FL: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1989.]]> Anderson Cottage was once part of the Markland estate.]]> King Street.]]> Proctor Library, Ringhaver Student Center, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, in addition to Markland House.]]> The following St. Augustine Fiction books feature this historic site as a location:

One Happy Winter; or, a Visit to Florida
The Seminole Trail]]> Flagler College
74 King St.
St. Augustine, FL 32084
www.flagler.edu]]>