Welcome to the Lightner Museum. by danapommet
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Description
Retrace the grandeur of the Gilded Age at The Lightner Museum, formerly the elegant Hotel Alcazar, built in 1887, in the Spanish Renaissance style, another of Henry M Flagler's finest hotels. The Lightner collection features three levels of elegant displays that showcase Victorian-era costumes, furnishings, musical instruments, art glass and other treasures harkening back to the high life of the 19th century. The hotel, unlike its predecessor, was built to attract the middle class and was slightly less expensive. But its popularity soon surged as guests could avail themselves of Russian and Turkish baths, cold plunge, tropical gardens, bowling, tennis courts, a cafe, concert rooms and bicycling. A courtyard, used for business meetings, had its own band, informal dining room and grand parlor. There was a gym available with "state-of-the-art" fitness equipment including pulleys, weights, parallel and horizontal bars and punching bags. The expansive indoor swimming pool was a major draw and still is; a delightful lunch cafe has displaced the water it once contained, and an antique mall surrounds it. St' Augustine is a very popular wedding destination and these gardens are often used for wedding photos as you can see to the left of the walkway. Zoom helps. Some notes from Lisa Codianne Fowlers web site.
Thanks for stopping by, taking a look and for all your previous favs and comments.
They are very much appreciated.
Dana
Comments (28)
Cool looking place You've got the pictures of the inside, right? You do have the pictures, right Dana?
wonderful building and garden!!
Lol @ Faemike! WEll Dana, do you?
Awesome place, excellent capture!
VERY NICE.
wow.. sad that it is no longer a hotel this looks better than the glass and steel things they call hotel now a days this is where you welcome guests... now a museum.. alas.. still a place to go.. but image .... image.. to sleep there .. owwwwh the people of the 19th century had more luck than we
Great shot Dana. The place looks inviting.
This is a great style! We only have one building in my town in anything similar.
A very beautiful place to investigate and would be wonderful to stay in a awesome setting.
Wonderful palce and building !Splendid garden !
Like a fairy-tale castle; what a lovely place! Excellent capture!
Wow Dana!
A beautiful building for sure, but I'm having a hard time wondering how you get into that cafe now!!
Beautiful capture!!
~Marvelous capture!~
Wow! that is a grand looking place. Excellent capture! :)
Very impressive!!!
Great capture of this wonderful building, Dana! I would ask as faemike: Indoors shots? ;o)
fascinating place!
A beautiful capture of this very interesting museum.
Wow, heaven above for the nouveau riche and the hoi polloi! Who could ask for anything more? Lots of great architecture, contrast and detail in this capture, accompanyed by your very thorough description, Dana.
impressive architecture and capture
what a beautiful building Dana, superb shot my friend. steve
wonderful shot. wow wish i had money to stay there. but it gone now and this is what is now.
What a beautiful picture of this imposing building. The building on the right does me think of a church in Germany.
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SPECTACULAR SHOT
Absolutely fabulous, loved it a lot! ********
Beautifully captured Dana and interesting background info!