Belle Vue- Home of the Princess Murat

Former home of Catherine Daingerfield Willis, great-grandniece of George Washington and widow of Archille Murat, Prince of Naples and nephew of Napoleon. During the Second French Empire she was recognized as a princess and financially assisted by Napoleon III, whose ...

Prince and Princess Murat

Prince Achille Murat was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte and the son of General Jochaim Murat, King of Naples. He settled in Florida in 1825, and as attorney, county judge, and director of Tallahassee's Union Bank, he played an active ...

The Battle of Pensacola (1781)

In June of 1779 the Spanish declared war on England. In an attempt to remove England from the New World they decided to remove England's control of it's colony in west Florida. The Spanish governor of Louisiana, Bernardo de Galvez, ...

Bldg. 73, UWF Aquatic Center

Occupied in 1976, the swimming pool was a major addition to the physical education, health, and recreation facilities. The architectural and engineering firm of Henningson, Durham, and Richardson were chosen for the project. The outdoor pool boasted state of the ...

Bldg. 70, UWF Vocational-Technical

The building program for the vocational-technical facility, occupied in 1976, called for a modest building. The architects, Ricks/Kendrick/Stokes/David, from Fort Walton Beach, Florida answered the charge with a very workable, inexpensive solution, fitting the building into the hillside, just north ...

Bldg. 79, UWF Information Technology Services

The architects' design-concept for this project was for two buildings--one housing the computer sciences faculty and one housing computer services--running parallel, one to the other, along the hillside site--with the requirement for deliver-dock accessibility from the university green. The two ...

White Sands National Monument

Sand dunes for miles, the hot sun beating down without a cloud in sight, the glistening white sands of New Mexico.

Nestled between the San Andres Mountains to the east and the Sacramento Mountains to the west, here, great wave-like ...

Chinatown

Imagine coming to a country with only the clothes on your back, little money, and only a glimmer of hope. San Francisco's "Little Shanghai" is the informal capital city of the Chinese population of Northern California where Chinese immigrants came ...

Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Sanctuary

This 100-acre ecological sanctuary includes the northernmost naturally occurring stand of bald cypress trees in America. A nature trail features an elevated boardwalk. The Nature Center houses live animals and exhibits. Classes, demonstrations, field trips and special programs are offered ...

Grauman's Chinese Theater

Lights, Camera, Action!

Since opening in 1927, Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California has developed a reputation as one of the most distinguishable theaters in the world.

Building the Chinese Theater was the dream of owner Sid Grauman who ...