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Kelly.R
March 8, 2017

The Lightner Museum

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During our trip to St. Augustine, FL, we went to the Lightner Museum.

The Lightner Museum is housed in the former Alcazar Hotel built in 1888 by Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913).

The hotel was at the peak of its popularity during the 1890's. More than 25,000 guests visited the Alcazar during those early winter seasons and countless more used the recreational facilities of the casino. For the pleasure of the guests, there was the world's largest indoor swimming pool at the time, the grand ballroom, sulfur baths, a steam room, massage parlor, a gymnasium, a bowling alley, archery ranges, tennis courts and a bicycle academy.

The hotel has since been turned into The Lightner Museum. The story that we were told is that during the Great Depression, Otto C. Lightner went all over the Country and bought items that people were selling in order to get money just to survive including furniture, paintings, dishware, music boxes, etc. He was still a very rich man and the Great Depressions didn't effect him. He had all these stored in a warehouse. When the Alcazar Hotel closed, he purchased the property, refurbished it and it was opened as a museum. It' like walking through an Antique Mall and not being able to buy anything.

This is a photo collage of some of the Antiques in the Museum and Cliff and I in the courtyard.

Chippies - Serbian DIY

Center Frame - Stay True to God

Background paper - Pion


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