page_title: Ponce de Leon Hotel
section_title: External links
hierarchical_section_title: Ponce de Leon Hotel / External links
caption_attribution_description: English: Postcard, circa 1909, of en:Ponce de Leon Hotel in en:St. Augustine, Florida, identified in caption on picture side of postcard as "Hotel Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, Florida"; store Web page states: "Original, circa 1909 postcard"
context_page_description: The Ponce de Leon Hotel, also known as The Ponce, was an exclusive luxury hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, built by millionaire developer and Standard Oil co-founder Henry M. Flagler and completed in 1888. The hotel was designed in the Spanish Renaissance style as the first major project of the New York architecture firm Carrère & Hastings, which would go on to gain world renown.
  The hotel was the first of its kind constructed entirely of poured concrete, using the local coquina stone as aggregate. The hotel was also one of the first buildings in the country wired for electricity from the onset, with the power being supplied by DC generators installed by Flagler's friend, Thomas Edison.
  The original building and grounds of the hotel are today a part of Flagler College.
context_section_description: Carrère & Hastings Digital Collection, with over 200 drawings for the Ponce de Leon Hotel (now Flagler College), the Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, and select others
  Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. FL-173, "Hotel Ponce de Leon, King, Valencia, Sevilla & Cordova Streets, Saint Augustine, St. Johns County, FL", 13 photos, 5 data pages, 1 photo caption page
caption: Hotel postcard, about 1909
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