Flagler College, Private liberal arts college in St. Augustine, US
Flagler College is a private liberal arts institution in downtown St. Augustine, Florida, using a late 19th-century historic hotel as its main building. The campus extends across several neighboring structures and courtyards surrounded by tropical vegetation and palm trees.
The central building opened in 1888 as a luxury hotel and served wealthy northern travelers escaping winter. Its transformation into a college took place 80 years later, preserving the architecture and interior design for a new generation.
Students live and learn in a building that once hosted wealthy guests, and its halls now serve lectures and seminars. Visitors can sense the connection between the grand hotel past and the current academic function as they walk through the entrance lobby and corridors.
Campus tours run twice daily and provide access to the main buildings and courtyards. The visit lasts about an hour and shows the architecture as well as how students use the spaces.
The former hotel dining room displays several large glass windows designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany that depict the four seasons and scenes from Florida's Spanish colonial history. These windows were manufactured in New York and shipped to St. Augustine, where they have remained in the same room for over a century.
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