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University of West Florida

The University of West Florida, with campuses in Pensacola and along the Emerald Coast of Northwest Florida, is one of Northwest Florida's prized resources. UWF is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and serves a student population ...

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Lear-Rocheblave House

Lear-Rocheblave House

Located at 214 East Zaragoza Street, in Historic Pensacola Village, the Lear-Rocheblave House is a two-story Folk Victorian structure with wood-frame clapboard siding and ornamental Queen Anne design elements.

The house is named for John and Kate Lear, ...

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Dorothy Walton Cottage

The Dorothy Walton Cottage is an example of Anglicized, French Creole architecture common to Pensacola in the early 19th century. Constructed primarily of Northwest Florida yellow pine, the cottage contains covered front and rear verandas, a high loft, and is ...

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Barkley House

Located at the corner of Zaragoza and Florida Blanca streets, the Barkley House is on the National Register of Historic Places. The only original example of a masonry high house remaining in Pensacola, it is built on brick pillars nearly ...

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Old Christ Church

The Old Christ Church, constructed in 1832, is the oldest standing protestant church in the state of Florida. The church itself is constructed in the Norman Gothic Revival style, and is designed after Sir Christopher Wren's Old North Church in ...

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Manuel Barrios Cottage

Originally located at 524 East Zaragossa Street, this Gulf Coast style cottage is named after one of its earliest residents, Manuel Barrios. Of Creole, or mixed-race ancestry, Barrio was a barber in town who resided in the house with Elizabeth ...

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T.T. Wentworth Florida State Museum

The T. T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum is one of Pensacola's most iconic buildings and one of America's most unique museums. Built in the popular Italian Renaissance style--characterized by wide overhanging eaves, decorative brackets, clay tile roofs, and classical ...

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Alachua

The town of Alachua, incorporated in 1903, lies in the northwest quadrant of Alachua County. During the prehistoric period the Timucua Indians made the area their home. The Pánfilo de Narváez expedition in 1528 and that of Hernando De Soto ...

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Kirtland Air Force Base

Located just outside Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kirtland Air Force Base boasts a long history of nuclear weapons development that played a key role for the United States during the Cold War arms race.

The U.S. Army built the base in ...

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Lavalle Cottage

Originally located on West Government Street, the Lavalle house is a fine example of a colonial era French Creole style house. This style is exemplified by symmetrical room designs, apron roofs, and plaster facades. This house was built between 1803 ...

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