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There are 55 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 6 National Historic Landmarks. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted September 5, 2024.[2] Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Contents: Counties in Florida (non-linked contain no National Register listings)
Designated NHLDCP. 15 April 1970. The Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine (Spanish: Catedral basílica de San Agustín) is a historic cathedral in St. Augustine, Florida, and the seat of the Catholic Bishop of St. Augustine. It is located at 38 Cathedral Place between Charlotte and St. George Streets.
The Lightner Museum, originally the Alcazar Hotel, with a statue of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on the ground. The Lightner Museum is a museum of antiques, mostly American Gilded Age pieces, housed within the historic Hotel Alcazar building in downtown St. Augustine. This 1887 Spanish Renaissance Revival style building is listed on the National ...
82001040. Added to NRHP. 19 November 1982 [1] The Bridge of Lions is a double-leaf bascule bridge that spans the Intracoastal Waterway in St. Augustine, Florida, United States. A part of State Road A1A, it connects downtown St. Augustine to Anastasia Island across Matanzas Bay. A pair of copies of the marble Medici lions guard the bridge, begun ...
Nights of Lights (sometimes referred to as Night of Lights) is an annual holiday festival of lights occurring in and around downtown St. Augustine, in the U.S. state of Florida, in which buildings and rooftops throughout the downtown are decorated and lit by over three million of tiny holiday lights. [1][2] The festival is a public-private ...
Fort Mose (originally known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose[3] [Royal Grace of Saint Teresa of Mose], [4] and later as Fort Mose, [2] or alternatively Fort Moosa or Fort Mossa[5]) is a former Spanish fort in St. Augustine, Florida. In 1738, the governor of Spanish Florida, Manuel de Montiano, had the fort established as a free black ...
The Diocese of St. Augustine is a suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical Province of Miami, covering much of North Florida. The bishop's seat is the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine. As of 2023, the current bishop is Erik T. Pohlmeier. On March 11, 1870, the Vatican erected the Diocese of St. Augustine.
October 15, 1924. The Castillo de San Marcos (Spanish for "St. Mark's Castle") is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States; it is located on the western shore of Matanzas Bay in St. Augustine, Florida. It was designed by the Spanish engineer Ignacio Daza, with construction beginning in 1672, 107 years after the city's founding ...