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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24M0_st-augustine-civic-center_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Like a restored masterpiece, the St. Augustine Visitor Information Center continues to do what it has done since the day it opened: Welcome visitors to St. Augustine. It was the Junior Chamber of Commerce that first proposed the idea of a Civic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24LZ_st-augustine-civic-center_St.-Augustine-FL.html
This building is associated with New Deal construction and significant for its architecture as an example of Mission Revival style applied to a civic building. Local coquina stone materials and the selection of prominent local architect Frederick …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24LB_hotel-alcazar_St.-Augustine-FL.html
The Hotel Alcazar was constructed by Henry Flagler, Standard Oil Company co-founder and developer of the Florida East Coast Railway. The Alcazar was part of a trio of Moorish and Spanish Renaissance Revival styled resorts that depicted Flagler's i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM241R_casa-horruytiner_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Pedro Horruytiner y Pueyo was the first documented owner of this house, a member of a prominent Spanish family. Don Pedro Benedit Horruytiner and Don Luis de Horruytiner were governors of Florida during the First Spanish Period (1565-1763). It rem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23WS_marin-house_St.-Augustine-FL.html
Coquina stone was quarried on Anastasia Island for use as a construction material, and after the Castillo was completed the material became widely used for private homes as a superior alternative to wood frame construction. Francisco Marin, a Mino…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23WR_canova-dow-and-canova-de-medicis-houses_St.-Augustine-FL.html
These two buildings, at 42 and 46 Bridge Street, are among the few Territorial Period buildings left in the city which represent the time period between 1821 and 1845. Antonio Canova purchased the property and built these structures for his sons. …
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…
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