Saint Francis Street carries the Llambias House, known in local history as the Fernandez-Llambias House. Built sometime before 1763, this is one of the few houses in Florida to survive from the first period of Spanish Florida. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on April 15, 1970, and today the St. Augustine Historical Society manages it as an event venue.
You can feel the age of the place in its materials: the two-story mass is mainly plastered coquina limestone beneath a dormered hip roof. The street-facing facade gives you two windows on the ground floor and an overhanging wood-frame balcony on the second, with symmetrically placed entrances at the center flanked by windows. The property also includes a separate kitchen outbuilding, itself built of coquina.
The house's initial construction date is unknown; by the time Florida was turned over to Great Britain by the Spanish in 1763, this house was already a single-story structure. Stand here and imagine layers of change in this residential area south of downtown St. Augustine. Picture this coquina house already standing as a single story when Britain took Florida in 1763.