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Century. THE ALGER-SULLIVAN LUMBER COMPANY RESIDENTIAL HISTORIC DISTRICT. 1900-1934. 51 buildings, 46 of historical interest. Frame Vernacular predominates. One of the few remaining examples of a mill town in Florida. A little village named Teaspoon existed on the site before the lumber company developed it. Churches and community buildings as well as residences in the district. Private. N.R. 1989.
Pensacola. AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK BUILDING. 226 S. Palafox St. 1908+ . Commercial style with Sullivanesque elements. J.E.R. Carpenter, architect. 11 stories, masonry, heavily ornamented on main facade. A product of a boom period in the city's history. Believed to have been the tallest building in Florida when completed. Tallest in Pensacola until 1974. Private. N.R. 1978.
Pensacola. CRYSTAL ICE COMPANY BUILDING. 2024 N. Davis St. c. 1932. Masonry Vernacular. Steve Fulghum, architect. 1 story, stucco ornamentation to convey the impression of a block of ice. One of the few remaining examples of vernacular roadside commercial architecture in Pensacola. Building used to sell ice to motorists. Private. N.R. 1983.
Pensacola. CLARA BARKLEY DORR HOUSE. 311 S. Adams St. 1871. Greek Revival. 2 stories, frame, 2-story full-width front porch. One of Pensacola's best-preserved examples of post-Civil War Classical Revival architecture. House Museum. Public. N.R. 1974.
Pensacola. JOHN EDMUNDS APARTMENT HOUSE. (Mirador). 2007 E. Gadsden St. 1927+ . Mediterranean Revival. Walker Dorr Willis, architect. 3 stories, masonry, stuccoed, 5 cast-iron balconies on 3rd floor. One of the most fashionable apartments in Pensacola for 30 years. Until 1956 it was the only major apartment complex in the city. Private. N.R. 1983.
Pensacola. FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Greater Mount Lily Baptist Church). 619 E. Gadsden St. 1913. Medieval Eclectic. Front-facing parapetted gables, 18 colorful, well-executed art-glass windows. Private. N.R. 1994.
Pensacola. FORT BARRANCAS HISTORIC DISTRICT. Pensacola Naval Air Station. 17th to 19th century. 3 structures: Fort Barrancas, Battery San Antonio, and the Advanced Redoubt. The most notable structure is Fort Barrancas, a semicircular brick fortification surrounded by a moat, which replaced a fort built in 1698, and destroyed by French in 1719. Present fort was captured from the Spanish in 1814 by forces commanded by Andrew Jackson. Public. N.R. 1982.
Pensacola. FORT GEORGE SITE. La Rua at Palafox St. 1778. Site of a log fort built by the British to protect Pensacola. Captured by Spanish in 1781 following the Spanish alliance with the American colonies during the Revolution. Renamed Fort San Miguel, but allowed to deteriorate by the Spanish. Public. N.R. 1974.
Pensacola. CHARLES WILLIAM JONES HOUSE. 302 N. Barcelona St. 1869+ . Frame Vernacular. 2 stories, frame wraparound porch. Jones was a leader in the Democrat Party after the Civil War. Born in Ireland, he settled in Florida where he first became a carpenter, but then studied law. He served in the U.S. Senate from Florida. Private. N.R. 1977.
Pensacola. KING-HOOTON HOUSE. 512-514 N. 7th Ave. 1871. Frame Vernacular. 1 and a half stories. Built as a single dwelling, it was converted into a duplex in mid-1950s. Built for Margaret E. King, one of Pensacola's most prominent real estate holders in the late 19th century. Detached kitchen wing. Private. N.R. 1991.
Pensacola. L AND N MARINE TERMINAL BUILDING. Bayfront Parkway. 1902+ (moved in 1972) . Eclectic. 2 and a half stories, frame, wraparound porch on 2nd floor. Served as the focal point for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's export trade prior to World War II. This trade was considerable and included local lumber as well as coal from northern Alabama. Public. N.R. 1972.
Pensacola. L AND N PASSENGER STATION AND EXPRESS OFFICE. 239 N. Alcaniz St. 1912-1913. Spanish Mission and Italianate elements. 2-story, masonry passenger terminal, 1-story masonry express wing. Raised limestone and terra-cotta ornamentation on facades. Built to serve the city's most important land transportation artery, its railway. Incorporated into a new hotel in 1984. Private. N.R. 1979.
Pensacola. LAVALLE HOUSE. 203 E. Church St. c. 1803-1815 (moved in 1969). Frame Vernacular raised Creole cottage. 1 story, gallery porch. One of the few remaining early 19th-century frame houses in the city. An excellent example of early Gulf Coast Vernacular style. House Museum. Public. N.R. 1971.
Pensacola. NORTH HILL PRESERVATION DISTRICT. 1870-1930s. 542 structures, of which 404 are considered of historical interest, within 65 blocks. Queen Anne, Frame Vernacular, Tudor Revival, and Mediterranean Revival are the predominant styles. An early upper-middle-class suburb of the city. Included within it are the remains of the British fortifications of Fort George used in the 1781 Battle of Pensacola. One of the finest collections of Victorian and early 20th-century houses in northwest Florida. N .R. 1983.
Pensacola. OLD CHRIST CHURCH. 405 S. Adams St. 1830-1832. Gothic Revival. 1 story, brick, square bell tower. The oldest building used for religious purposes in northwest Florida. Built as an Episcopal Church, but used by several other denominations. From 1937 to 1957, it served as the Pensacola Public Library. Public. N.R. 1974.
Pensacola. PENSACOLA HISTORIC DISTRICT (Seville Historic District). 18th century to 19th century. Approximately 20 blocks. A significant concentration of French influenced Gulf Coast Vernacular cottages with some excellent examples of Greek Revival and Victorian-era houses. The typical Gulf Coast cottage is a distinctive 1 and a half-story house on piers with a steep pitched gable roof and a gallery porch on the main facade. Design is from the Caribbean by way of New Orleans. District contains historic Seville Square and Pensacola Village, a state-owned museum complex. N.R. 1970.
Pensacola. PENSACOLA HOSPITAL. N. 12th Ave. 1915+. Late Gothic Revival. A.O. Von Herbulis, architect. 4 stories, sandstone veneer, main block flanked by 2 3-story wings, raised basement. Quoins, lintels and belt courses of Indiana limestone. The first major hospital in Pensacola and for its time a major undertaking. Building ceased being used as hospital in 1965. Private. N.R. 1982.
Pensacola. PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE AND KEEPER'S QUARTERS. Pensacola Naval Air Station. 1859. Conical. Brick. 160 feet high. Keeper's quarters (1869): 2 stories with a 2-story gallery. Present lighthouse built to replace an earlier one (1824). Damaged during the Civil War. Public. N.R. 1974.
Pensacola. PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION HISTORIC DISTRICT. 1824-1899, 1914. 55 structures of historical interest within 82 acres. Notable are the octagonal armory and chapel (1854), and 6 metal seaplane hangars (1916-1918). First permanent U.S. Naval Air Station and first Navy pilot training center in the nation. Public. N.R. 1976.
Pensacola. PLAZA FERDINAND II. Palafox and Government Sts. 1821. Site of the formal transfer of Florida from Spain to U.S. in 1821. Present square is remnant of original city square laid out by the British in 1765, a large part of which was subdivided and sold in 1802. Public. N.R. 1966.
Pensacola. SAENGER THEATER. 118 S. Palafox St. 1924-1925. Spanish Baroque. Emile Weil, architect. 2 stories, masonry, terra-cotta ornamentation on front facade as well as grille-work. Auditorium has elaborate columns and is notable for outstanding use of color in decoration. The theater itself, one of the "atmospheric" variety built throughout the nation in the period , served for live theater as well as movies. Public. N.R. 1976.
Pensacola. ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH BUILDINGS. 140 W. Government St. Church, 1892; Convent, 1857 +; School-orphanage, 1920-1928. Church: 1 story, brick, asymmetrical towers on main facade; convent: 1 and a half stories, frame, incised veranda; school-orphanage: 2 and a half stories, frame. A religious center for Pensacola's black community since mid-19th century. Also served the city's large Creole community. Private. N.R. 1979.
Pensacola. ST. MICHAEL'S CREOLE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION HALL. 416 E. Government St. 1895-1896. Frame Vernacular with Queen Anne elements. 1 and a half stories, frame, front and side porches. Built to accommodate the social and cultural activities of the city's Creoles, a racially mixed group which remained socially isolated from the white and black communities. Private. N.R. 1974.
Pensacola. THIESEN BUILDING. 40 S. Palafox St. 1901+ . Commercial style. Morgan and Dillon, architects. 5 stories, brick, terra-cotta ornamentation on west and south facades. Built by Christian Thiesen, a Danish immigrant who settled in the city in 1882 and became a developer. The building was one of the first modern office blocks in the city and represents the early 20th-century optimism of the city business leaders. Private. N.R. 1979.
Vicinity of Pensacola. FORT PICKENS. U.S. 98 W of Pensacola Beach. 1834. Pentagonal brick fort with bastions at each corner, partial moat, 40-foot-high walls, 12 feet thick. Built to defend Pensacola's deep water harbor. Never captured by Confederates despite several attempts. Public. N.R. 1972.
Vicinity of Warrington. PERDIDO KEY HISTORIC DISTRICT. Small island south of Pensacola in Pensacola Bay. 1828, 1862, 1898, 1905, 1940. On the eastern end of the key a series of artillery batteries was built to defend Pensacola. Fort McRee built by U.S. in 1828. In 1861 fort fell to Union forces. Fort McRee eroded by sea currents and finally abandoned. In 1898 another battery built, followed by another in 1905 and another in 1940. The newer batteries also have been undermined by sea erosion. Public. N.R. 1980.
