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A Touch of Old Spain: Historic St. Augustine |
| Section: THE ARTS / ARCHITECTURE |
| Author: Alicia Waite |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,790 Words, 18,834 Characters |
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America's oldest continuously occupied European city, St. Augustine, Florida, is a place possessed of architectural magic. Its venerable buildings, renovations and reconstructions alike, some based on construction plans twice as old as America itself, recall an era when Spain wielded a mighty hand in the New World. Yet even though the exotic Spanish influence is most obvious along the city's narrow streets, there is the surprisingly harmonious inclusion of British and colonial design elements, which only enhances St. Augustine's enduring charm.
Yet all this architectural harmony has not come without a price. When faced with the choice in the 1960s of what to preserve, the Saint Augustine Historic Preservation Board wisely picked the first Spanish colonial period, focusing "at or near 17...
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...tine, 1965; Organization of American States, National Trust for Historical Preservation; and the St. Augustine Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission, San Agustin Antiguo, 1967.
Jean Parker Waterbury, ed., The Oldest City: St. Augustine, Saga of Survival, St. Augustine Historical Society, 1983.Alicia Waite, currently based in Washington, D.C., writes on architecture and design.
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