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Museum Piano

Lightner Museum - 1887 - (formerly Hotel Alcazar)
Saint Augustine, Florida - July 4th, 2024 - 3rd floor
Saint Augustine City Hall - Summer 2024 - 3 levels
Oldest U.S. City - 1513 - NE Florida Treasure Coast
Independence Day 2024 - 7/4/24 - afternoon lunch

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The Lightner Museum is a museum of antiquities, mostly American Victorian era pieces, housed within a historic Hotel Alcazar building in downtown St. Augustine, St. Johns County, northeastern Florida. The museum occupies three floors of the former Hotel Alcazar, commissioned by Henry M. Flagler to appeal to wealthy tourists who traveled south for the winter on his railroad. It was built in 1887, from the design of New York City architects Carrère and Hastings, in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style. The firm also designed the Ponce de León Hotel across the street (now part of Flagler College). Both buildings are notable as being among the earliest examples of poured concrete buildings in the world. These architects later designed the N.Y. Public Library and the U.S. Senate office building.

The hotel boasted a steam room, massage parlor, gymnasium, and sulfur baths, a three-story ballroom, and the world's largest indoor swimming pool. However, after years as an elegant winter resort for wealthy patrons, the hotel closed in 1932. In 1946, Chicago publisher Otto C. Lightner purchased the building to house his extensive collection of Victoriana. He opened the museum two years later, and later donated it to the city of Saint Augustine. The building is an attraction in itself, centering on an open courtyard with palm trees, and a stone arch bridge over a fishpond. The Museum is housed in the former health facilities of the hotel, including the spa and Turkish bath, and in its three-story ballroom.

The museum's first floor houses a Victorian village, with shop fronts representing emporia selling period wares; a Victorian Science and Industry Room displays shells, rocks, minerals, and Native American artifacts in beautiful turn-of-the-20th-century cases, as well as stuffed birds, a small Egyptian mummy, model steam engines, elaborate examples of Victorian glassblowing, golden elephant bearing the world on its back, and a shrunken head; and a Music Room, filled with mechanized musical instruments—including player pianos, reproducing pianos, orchestrions, and others—dating from the 1870s through the 1920s.

The second floor contains examples of cut glass, Victorian art glass and stained glass work of Louis Comfort Tiffany's studio. The third floor, in the ballroom's upper balcony, exhibits paintings, sculpture, and furniture, including a grande escritoire created for Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, in the period 1806-1810.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanzas_River

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Marcos

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagler_College

Taken in: United States / Florida / St. Augustine (show map)

Taken on: July 4, 2024

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