Old Hotel Alcazar now Lightner Museum St. Augustine Florida #3
by Dawna Moore Photography
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Old Hotel Alcazar now Lightner Museum St. Augustine Florida #3
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Dawna Moore Photography
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Photograph - Nature Photography
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In 1946, newspaperman Otto Lightner visited the Hotel Alcazar and decided to relocate his Chicago-based museum to St. Augustine. After purchasing the building from Flagler in 1947, he immediately turned it over to the city in trust. The great mansions of the 19th and early 20th centuries were the white elephants of the 1930s and '40s. Difficult to maintain, the rich were either forced to sell their homes and possessions or their heirs did so, sometimes indifferent to the value of the contents. This is where Lightner came in, buying whatever he could at these estate sales, gradually adding to his collection of collections that now fills the Lightner Museum. (staugustine.com)
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December 14th, 2013
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