Photograph of Lightner Museum — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Alcazar Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1937.

From the record

“The Lightner Museum is a museum of antiques, mostly American Gilded Age pieces, housed within the historic Hotel Alcazar building in downtown St. This 1887 Spanish Renaissance Revival style building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Lightner Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for St. Johns County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 79 King St., St. Augustine, 32084
When was it listed? February 1971
Category. building
Census division. St. Augustine
Architectural style. Mediterranean Revival architecture
Architect. Carrère and Hastings
National Register reference number. 71001013 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

341 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 341 fires within 5 miles of Alcazar Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,421 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 48 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	93
Natural	50
Arson/incendiarism	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Recreation and ceremony	33
Misuse of fire by a minor	30
Railroad operations and maintenance	22
Debris and open burning	13
Smoking	5
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WINN DIXIE (55)
6 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
6 September 1999	Natural	11 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 2020	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	SAN SEBASTIAN (55)
5 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
27 September 1993	Natural	75 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.7 acres	Florida Forest Service	N. WASHINGTON ST. (55)

Every fire recorded in St. Johns County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Alcazar Hotel: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
St. Johns Co. Rd. and Bridge - Woodlawn Pit	Sand	Producer
Anastasia Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mclead Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Johns County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1937 USGS St. Augustine quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS St. Augustine quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS St. Augustine quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Lindsley House	under 500 feet	1971
Villa Zorayda	under 500 feet	1993
Hotel Ponce De Leon	under 500 feet	1975
Constitution Obelisk	under 500 feet	2012
St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District	0.1 miles	1970
Xavier Lopez House	0.1 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71001013 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Johns County	All 51 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.