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Tri-fold tourist brochure for St. Augustine\'s Oldest House, the González-Alvarez House at 14 St. Francis Street in St. Augustine, Florida, produced for The St. Augustine Historical Society.
The front cover features a red background with yellow titling reading St. Augustine\'s Oldest House (González-Alvarez House), the street address, and small notes for Open Daily and Free Parking above a full-color photograph of the historic house with multiple flags along the balcony.
Lower front text identifies the site as A National Historic Landmark and credits ownership and operation to The St. Augustine Historical Society, described as a not-for-profit organization founded in 1883.
One outer panel is headed Museum of Florida\'s Army and subtitled Militia/State Troops/National Guard 1565 to the Present, noting that a ticket to the Oldest House admits visitors to the Oldest House, the Museum of Florida\'s Army, the museum store, the Manucy Museum of St. Augustine History, the historical society research library, and the museum gardens, with a simplified street map locating the complex and a membership box inviting support for the society alongside Tourist Development Council St. Johns County, Florida branding.
An interior panel titled The Oldest House... through the centuries presents a narrative history of the González-Alvarez House and earlier structures on the same site, describing the evolution of the dwelling across Spanish, British, and American periods and illustrating changes in the building with small black-and-white line drawings.
The central full-color interior spread carries the heading A home for over 250 years first Spanish, then British, and finally American and arranges photographs of the house exterior, period-furnished rooms, and exhibits with captions such as Maria\'s Room, The British Influence, In the American Territorial Period, Spanish Kitchens, and a dining room where the González-Alvarez family would have taken daily meals.
Additional photographs show ornamental gardens with plants associated with Spanish, British, and American eras, a museum that interprets the 400-year history of St. Augustine as part of the Oldest House complex, and the research library of the St. Augustine Historical Society with collections of books, bound periodicals, documents, maps, photographs, and microfilm resources.
Audience and topics: local history and heritage tourism ephemera relating to St. Augustine, Florida, Spanish colonial and British period domestic architecture, Florida National Guard and militia history, and interpretive museum presentations at the Oldest House complex.
Special notes: Original St. Augustine\'s Oldest House and Museum of Florida\'s Army color tri-fold brochure only; see photos and condition notes for details of this specific copy.
