
Centre Street Downtown Fernandina Florida

by Dawna Moore Photography
Title
Centre Street Downtown Fernandina Florida
Artist
Dawna Moore Photography
Medium
Photograph - Nature Photography
Description
Originally constructed as a haberdashery in 1878, Louis G. Hirth bought the Prescott building in 1903 and replaced shoes with booze and named it the Palace Saloon. Hirth called upon his friend Adolphus Busch, founder of Anheuser-Busch to assist him with designing the elegant Bar, and Busch reportedly traveled from St. Louis to oversee the installation of the now famous fixture. The saloon still has the elegant features that have made it famous for over a century: inlaid mosaic floors, embossed tin ceilings, hard carved mahogany caryatids (undraped female fixtures), a 40-foot bar lit with gas lamps and walls painted with six commissioned murals. (thepalacesaloon.com)
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February 5th, 2014
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