Our Projects
UF Historic St. Augustine, Inc. supports a wide range of research, preservation, and public education initiatives that bring St. Augustine’s history to life. The projects below represent collaborations between UFHSA, University of Florida faculty and students, and community partners — spanning historic structure reports, documentary films, oral histories, archaeological research, and more.
Foundations of the Future: Coquina, Craft, and Conservation
Foundations of the Future: Coquina, Craft, and Conservation documents the work of students in UF’s Preservation Institute St. Augustine during the 2024-25 academic year to study a building material unique to St. Augustine’s history.
Beginnings: Unwrapping St. Augstuine’s Chocolate Legacy
Beginnings: Unwrapping St. Augstuine’s Chocolate Legacy tells the story of St. Augustine’s history of chocolate as documented by the UF’s Preservation Institute St. Augustine (PISA) and Governor’s House Library in 2024.
Clerk of Court’s Office 200th Anniversary Commemorative Plaque
Clerk of Court’s Office 200th Anniversary Commemorative Plaque unveiled in the Governor’s House courtyard in September 2023
“The Architecture of Leisure,” a presentation by Susan R. Braden – Thursday, November 15, 2018, 7:00 PM, Governor’s House
Braden, retired professor of art history at Auburn University, is author of The Architecture of Leisure, The Florida Resort Hotels of Henry Flagler and Henry Plant, published in 2002. She takes us on a fascinating exploration of Florida’s Gilded Age Hotels and the ways in which they revolutionized the national imagination of Florida as a place […]
Governor’s House Library Open House and Guest Lecture by Dr. Christine Miller – September 22, 2018
Please join us for a special event at Governor’s House Cultural Center and Museum. Dr. Christine Miller will give a lecture on colonial medicine in St. Augustine at 4:00PM. Prior to the lecture, our staff will give behind-the-scenes tours of the library. Light refreshments will be served. This event is FREE and open to the […]
Sea Level Rise and Coastal Cities Course
Sea Level Rise and Coastal Cities Course was organized by the Florida Climate Institute at the University of Florida together with the Colleges of Law, Engineering, Design Construction and Planning, and Journalism and Communications, and the City of St. Augustine during March 5-9, 2018. *See the Video on YouTube*
Secrets of Spanish Florida
Secrets of Spanish Florida, was produced by UFHSA as a 2-hour documentary film released by PBS in December 2017. The production includes teacher resources and a 4-part extended viewing package “America’s Untold Story” that can be purchased from PBS.hased from PBS.
Oral Histories of St. Augustine
Oral Histories of St. Augustine have been recorded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Samuel Proctor Oral History Program with funding from UFHSA in 2011 and 2016. Topics include early leaders in St. Augustine’s historic preservation movement and St. Augustine’s important role in the country’s civil rights movement.
Before and After the Melting Pot: Seven Families and Spanish-American Cultural Identity
Before and After the Melting Pot: Seven Families and Spanish-American Cultural Identity, a 2016 research project by Dr. Charles Cobb and Dr. Gifford Waters of the Florida Museum of Natural History. With funding provided by UFHSA, the researchers explored the lives of families living in St. Augustine through the archaeological evidence left behind.
Transforming the Colonial Quarter
Transforming the Colonial Quarter was a UFHSA-funded research project spanning 2015-17 by Dr. Dan Fesenmaier and Dr. Michael Reid of the College of Health and Human Performance, together with Dr. Janet Matthews of the College of Design, Construction, and Planning. Using big data analytics and hands-on collaboration, the team at the CHHP’s Center for Tourism Research […]