Ximenez-Fatio House

About Ximenez-Fatio House

Ximenez-Fatio House Museum is one of the best-preserved and most authentic Second Spanish Period (1783-1821) residential buildings in St. Augustine, Florida. In 1973, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was designated a Florida Heritage Landmark in 2012.

The museum complex sits just south of the city's central Plaza de la Constitución at 20 Aviles Street (formerly Hospital Street), the oldest archaeologically documented street in the United States. It is located at the center of Old Town, the city's oldest continuously occupied community.

Since 1939, the property has been privately owned and managed by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in The State of Florida (NSCDA-FL). Through their efforts, it was restored and interpreted to reflect its function as a fashionable boarding house during Florida's first tourist boom, which began after 1821.

The property is a historic house museum, furnished and presented to tell stories of the visitors who lodged there, the women who owned and managed it, and how people lived during Florida's territorial period.

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  1. Ximenez-Fatio House, St. Augustine01St. AugustineKiran891 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Staged interior, laundry building on the grounds - Ximenez-Fatio House Museum - St Augustine02Staged interior, laundry building on the grounds - Ximenez-Fatio House Museum - St AugustineDan Lundberg · CC BY-SA 2.0
  3. St Aug Zimenez-Fatio House sign03St Aug Zimenez-Fatio House signEbyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0
  4. St Aug Zimenez-Fatio House sign04St Aug Zimenez-Fatio House signEbyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0
  5. Ximenez-Fatio House Museum05MuseumXFHouse · CC BY-SA 3.0
  6. Piano in front of the window where D. W. Whitehurst scratched his name - Ximenez-Fatio House Museum - St Augustine06Piano in front of the window where D. W. Whitehurst scratched his name - Ximenez-Fatio House Museum - St AugustineDan Lundberg · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Nearby museums

Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within a mile of Ximenez-Fatio House; the closest, Spanish Military Hospital Museum, is practically next door.