St. Clement's Chapel Church of the Advent

Built in the town of Lloyd in 1890, this Episcopal chapel was dedicated as St. Clement's Church on June 14, 1895, by Edwin Gardner Weed, 3rd Bishop of Florida. William Betton of Tallahassee designed and built the structure at a ...

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 ...

Texas School Book Depository

November 22, 1963. 12:30 pm. 8 seconds change the history of America. Bullets originating from The Texas Book Depository strike President John F. Kennedy fatally wounding him. Originally built in 1901, the building on the corner of Elm and Houston ...

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. 63, UWF Student Health Center

The Student Health Center, occupied in 1975, is the only existing building of the second-phase residence halls project.

The dormitories, designed and constructed on a strict budget, used bricks crafted by prisoners. The bricks, only used in state projects, ...

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 ...

Julee Cottage

This home is named in honor of Julee Panton, a free woman of color who lived and worked in Pensacola throughout the early nineteenth century. Julee Panton bought the building after being freed from her slave status and rented the ...