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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23WQ_xavier-lopez-house_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Xavier Lopez, descendant from a pioneer Minorcan family, succeeded as a merchant and public servant. He owned the house, passing it to his daughter upon his death. The house is significant as one of St. Augustine's best examples of Queen Anne resi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23WO_record-building-cordova-apartments_St.-Augustine-FL.html
This building housed the local newspaper for one hundred years and is important for its association with Florida's first independent female editor Nina Hawkins. Architecturally, it is significant for the Italian Renaissance Revival design. Promine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23T9_solana-house_St.-Augustine-FL.html
The coquina stone, for construction of this and other Colonial structures in St. Augustine, was quarried on Anastasia Island and requires a stucco finish to protect the native shellstone from the elements. Several buildings are located on this sit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23OL_espinosa-sanchez-house_St.-Augustine-FL.html
One of the few Spanish Colonial buildings remaining in St. Augustine and among a smaller group from the First Spanish Period, this structure suffered two fires and underwent many major alterations. The first documented property owner, and possible…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23OJ_solla-carcaba-cigar-factory_St.-Augustine-FL.html
This building is a significant example of St. Augustine's industrial heritage in cigar manufacturing at the beginning of the 20th century. Overall, the building represents a masonry vernacular style because of the use of local materials like the c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23OI_st-augustine-alligator-farm_St.-Augustine-FL.html
The two original structures represent one of the oldest private zoos and continuously operated tourist attractions in Florida. Contemporary structures have filled in the property among the original Mediterranean Revival characteristics as the attr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23OH_st-augustine-alligator-farm_St.-Augustine-FL.html
The St. Augustine Alligator Farm is one of the oldest continuously operated attractions created specifically for the purpose of entertaining visitors to Florida. Its origins date to the early 1890s, the first decade of St. Augustine's emergence as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23M6_historic-shrine-of-our-lady-of-la-leche_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Mission Nombre de Dios featured a stone chapel of La Leche as early as 1702. That chapel was damaged and subsequently dismantled, rebuilt, and destroyed in 1728. Another reconstruction was undertaken in 1875 by Bishop Augustin Verot that was destr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23M5_our-lady-of-la-leche_St.-Augustine-FL.html
The present chapel is the fourth building on this foundation. Erected first by 1615 this Shrine of Our Lady fell victim three times—to war, pirates and storms. The last reconstruction began in 1918. The devotion to Our Lady of La Leche ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23IM_trinity-episcopal-church_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Trinity Episcopal Church faces the Plaza opposite the Cathedral Basilica. It is built on the site of the 1735 Spanish Bishop's House and the 1774 British Statehouse, and it might have some of their foundation stones in its walls. It is the oldest …
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