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The Avero House is a historic house located at 41 St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida, United States. The building is locally significant as one of 30 remaining houses within the historic district that pre-date 1821. It was once the site of a Minorcan Chapel. Today, the building is home to the St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine.
The Salcedo House was a dwelling constructed in St. Augustine's First Spanish Period (1565–1763).By the end of this period the house belonged to Alfonsa de Avero. Avero, her sisters living nearby, and their families left St. Augustine with other Spaniards when Florida was transferred to the British with the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
Map depicting Sir Francis Drake's 1586 attack on St. Augustine City Gate, St. Augustine c. 1861–65 View looking into town, St. George Street. St. Augustine was intended to be a base for further colonial expansion [28] across what is now the southeastern United States, but such efforts were hampered by apathy and hostility on the part of the ...
The St. Augustine Restoration Inc. decided to take on reconstructing the Rodríguez House in the late 1960s using funds donated by Edward Ball of Jacksonville, Florida. [2] During the time of St. Augustine's downtown living history museum, San Agustín Antiguo, this structure was used to house craft demonstrations such as pottery making. [3 ...
February 5, 2014 (184 San Marco Ave. St. Augustine: 46: Sanchez Homestead: Sanchez Homestead: October 12, 2001 (7270 Old State Road 207: Elkton: 47: Sanchez Powder House Site
The St. Augustine Historic Restoration and Preservation Commission (later the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board) completed a reconstruction of the Sánchez de Ortigosa house in 1966. It was built as a one-story pink house on the corners of St. George Street and Cuna Street. The roof was built of tile and cement.
St. Johns County listings at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs; Rodriguez-Avero-Sanchez House; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. FL-126, "Rodriguez-Avero-Sanchez House, 52 Saint George Street, Saint Augustine, St. Johns, FL", 7 photos, 3 measured drawings, 16 data pages, supplemental material
Formally organized on New Years Day 1883, SAHS is the oldest continuously operating museum and historical society in Florida. In 1899, the society purchased the Vedder Museum on Bay Street where it exhibited historical and scientific curiosities until losing its holdings in the Saint Augustine Fire of 1914.