Two grant-funded projects at the University of Florida are digitizing architectural drawings and related materials documenting the historical buildings of St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest permanently occupied European settlement in the continental United States. The Saving St. Augustine’s Architectural Treasures project, which was completed in 2012, preserved and digitized architectural drawings of Hotel Ponce de Leon and the Memorial Presbyterian Church, created by Henry Flagler during the height of the Gilded Age and designed by the prestigious Carrère & Hastings firm. The Unearthing St. Augustine’s Colonial Heritage project, which started in 2012, is digitizing maps, drawings, photographs and other materials documenting the city’s Spanish and British Colonial periods. This project is particularly exciting because it unites resources from the fields of architecture, archaeology, historic preservation, geography and history. Researchers will be able to discover digital objects using a new map-based search system as well as traditional search options.
Presenter: John Nemmers, Archivist
Cost: $0
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET
Seats available. For more information and to register for this free session, click here.
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