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The Hotel Ponce de Leon, also known as The Ponce, was a luxury hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, built by millionaire developer and Standard Oil co-founder Henry M. Flagler. Built between 1885–1887, the winter resort opened in January 1888.
St. Augustine (/ ˈ ɔː ɡ ə s t iː n / AW-gə-steen; Spanish: San Agustín [san aɣusˈtin]) is a city in and the county seat of St. Johns County, Florida, United States.Located 40 miles (64 km) south of downtown Jacksonville, the city is on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.
Location of St. Johns County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Johns County, Florida.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Johns County, Florida, United States.
In a guest room of Hotel Saint Augustine, the custom sofa is covered in a patterned fabric inspired by the de Menil’s interior designer Charles James. The floor lamp is by Corbin Cruise and the ...
The building was designed and constructed by the P.J. Pauley Jail Building and Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, Missouri in 1891. Its construction was financed by Henry Flagler, who struck a deal with the county for $10,000 because the former jail building stood on land that Flagler needed for the construction of his Ponce de León Hotel. [2]
Palais de la Légion d'Honneur, also known as the Hôtel de Salm, 64 rue de Lille, Paris.. In French contexts, an hôtel particulier is a townhouse of a grand sort. Whereas an ordinary maison (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an hôtel particulier was often free-standing, and by the 18th century it would ...
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View of the Matanzas Bay from the Castillo de San Marcos United States Topographical Map of St. Augustine, Florida. Matanzas Bay is a saltwater bay in St. Johns County, Florida; the entrance to the bay from the South Atlantic is via St. Augustine inlet. Technically this stretch of water running along the city's waterfront is part of the ...