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Ponce de Leon Hotel

Ponce de León Hotel
Flagler College 2005-Sept fl 104.JPEG
Flagler College, formerly the Ponce de León Hotel
Ponce de Leon Hotel is located in Florida
Ponce de Leon Hotel
Ponce de Leon Hotel is located in the US
Ponce de Leon Hotel
Location 74 King Street
St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Coordinates 29°53′32″N 81°18′54″W / 29.89222°N 81.31500°W / 29.89222; -81.31500Coordinates: 29°53′32″N 81°18′54″W / 29.89222°N 81.31500°W / 29.89222; -81.31500
Built 1885-87
Architect John M. Carrere and Thomas Hastings
Architectural style Spanish Colonial Revival architecture with Moorish Revival elements
NRHP Reference # 75002067
Significant dates
Added to NRHP May 6, 1975
Designated NHL February 17, 2006

The Ponce de Leon Hotel was an exclusive hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, built by millionaire developer and Standard Oil co-founder Henry M. Flagler and completed in 1888. The Hotel Ponce de Leon was designed in the Spanish Renaissance style by the New York architects John Carrère and Thomas Hastings. These two would gain world renown and would eventually combine their firms into Carrere & Hastings, The hotel was the first of its kind constructed entirely of poured concrete[National Park Service], using the local coquina stone as aggregrate. The hotel also was wired for electricity at the onset, with the power being supplied by D.C. generators supplied by Flagler's friend, Thomas Edison. When electricity was first put in Henry M. Flagler hired staff to turn power on and off for his residents, because the people staying at the hotel were too afraid to turn the switches on and off. The building and grounds of the hotel are today a part of Flagler College.

The Ponce de Leon Hotel was built on land that was part of a former orange grove and partially salt marsh belonging to Dr. Andrew Anderson, owner of the Markland house. The hotel at 74 King Street in the Spanish Quarter section of St. Augustine was designed by architects John Carrere and Thomas Hastings of the firm Carrère and Hastings in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style. Construction began in 1885 by contractors and former New England shipbuilders James McGuire and Joseph McDonald; the building was completed in 1887.


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