Founded in 1565 by Pedro Menendez and a band of colonists and soldiers, the bay front city of St. Augustine strongly reflects its Spanish heritage in beautiful architecture amid subtropical splendor.

The St. Francis Inn was built as a private home for a Spanish soldier garrisoned at the Fort in St. Augustine in 1791. Known as the Garcia-Dummett house, it began operating as an Inn shortly after the turn of the century. It is a Spanish colonial structure with a private courtyard, balconies furnished with ample rocking chairs and the modern amenity of a swimming pool. The building is made of coquina, a local building material made of compressed seashells. One of the more interesting aspects of the inn is its physical shape. Because it was built on two intersecting streets which were not perpendicular, the inn itself is a trapezoidal building. Interestingly, there are no square or rectangular rooms; all of the rooms, stairways and halls are built on a angle.