Flagler Memorial Presbyterian Church, Valencia & Sevilla Streets, Saint Augustine, St. Johns County, FL

Significance: The Memorial Presbyterian Church was donated in 1890 to the St. Augustine First Presbyterian Church by Henry M. Flagler as a memorial to his recently deceased daughter. Flagler, a millionaire philanthropist who originally made a fortune as a business colleague of John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil, was almost single-handedly responsible for the late 19th-century development of the West Florida Coast as a fashionable resort area. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was particularly concerned with that church in the first of this Florida resort ventures St. Augustine. He therefore donated this structure, the land, and the former parsonage (also built at the same time as the church) to the First Presbyterian Church Congregation, in return for their former properties at the corner of St. George and Hypolita Streets, upon which Flagler had the Municipal Building built (1890) for the city.
Survey number: HABS FL-170
Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction