Peña-Peck House

St. Augustine’s main street for visitors spans most of the city’s 450 years of settlement. A walk along St. George Street, south from the City Gate to Plaza de la Constitucion, takes visitors back to the late 1500s when the city’s residents returned to the mainland from Anastasia Island where they had sought safety from native raids on their original settlement which is north of today’s downtown. Just steps from the Plaza at 143 St. George Street is one of St. Augustine great treasures, the Peña-Peck House, circa 1750. This native coquina stone and frame building with its distinctive green shutters was a home to Spanish and British officials, later other owners and tenants, and finally, a prominent American family who lived there for 94 years, the family of Dr. Seth Peck and his wife, Sarah Lay Peck. Their last direct descendant and granddaughter Miss Anna Gardner Burt, is the reason the public is invited in to experience a rich tapestry of St. Augustine’s past. Miss Anna left it to the city of St. Augustine in 1931 to be “maintained as an example of the old ante-bellum homes of the South.”

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