Segui-Kirby Smith House, Historic house in St. Augustine, Florida, United States

The Segui-Kirby Smith House is a Spanish Colonial residence on Aviles Street featuring coquina construction on its lower level and wooden framing above, built in the 1770s. The two-story structure displays the building techniques typical of that era and period.

A building on this lot appears on a Spanish map dated January 22, 1764, and the present house was built in the late 1770s. Under British rule (1763-1783) it belonged to Captain Henry Skinner; after the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Menorcan Bernardo Segui bought the lot from Pablo Cortina. In 1824 Segui's widow rented it to Judge Joseph Lee Smith, whose son Edmund Kirby Smith was born there; the family later bought it and sold it in 1887.

The house carries the name of Bernardo Segui, a Menorcan who bought the lot after the 1783 Treaty of Paris returned St. Augustine to Spain, and of the Smith family, who rented it in 1824 and later owned it. A bronze statue titled "Sons of St. Augustine", made by Maria Kirby-Smith in 2004, stands in the courtyard and shows General Edmund Kirby Smith with Alexander Darnes.

The building now serves as the headquarters for the St. Augustine Historical Society's research library and archival collections, welcoming visitors interested in local history. Plan your visit during the library's operating hours to explore the materials and view the historic space itself.

In 2004 Maria Kirby-Smith, great-granddaughter of Edmund Kirby Smith, made a bronze statue titled "Sons of St. Augustine" showing the general and Alexander Darnes; it stands in the house courtyard. Darnes, son of the enslaved woman Violet Pinkney, left in 1855 as Smith's valet, earned a medical degree at Howard University in 1880 and became one of Florida's first African American doctors.