The Lightner Museum, a museum of fine and decorative arts in the historic (1888) Alcazar Hotel in St. Augustine, Florida. The museum is named after Chicago publisher Otto C. Lightner, who in 1947 convertedthe old hotel into a hobbies museum and, a year later, gave it and much of his art collection to the City of St. Augustine. Founded in 1565 by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, the city is the oldest in the Continental United States. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2020.
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Keywords:florida, lightner museum, oldest u.s. city, otto c. lightner, pedro menéndez de avilés, st. augustine