DARC Geotrail- Quina House Traditional Cache
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DARC Geotrail- Quina House
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Built in 1810 the Quina House is Pensacola's oldest surviving house still located on its original site. The historic home is furnished with pieces dating from 1790 through the 1880's with noteworthy items such as a horse hair-cloth sofa and footstool circa 1830, a pine pembroke table circa 1820, a quilt made in the wandering drunkard's pattern, and a sleigh bed circa 1830. These are just a few of the many interesting artifacts you will see as you tour the home. The one-and-a-half-story shingled frame cottage was built in 1810 and is the fourth oldest in Pensacola. The house was built of local pine, cyprus, and oak resting on slave-made brick piers. A double fire chimney rising in the center of the apron roof is a typical Spanish effect. Even the butterfly roof made by the attachment of the kitchen to the main building has some Spanish Colonial background. The building also features a flat board siding across the front, typical of early 19th Century Pensacola,twin front doors with large shuttered windows and four handhewn round columnettes which form a portico across the house front. The same porch railing is found in Louisiana and St. Augustine on late 18th Century and early 19th Century porches built by the French and Spanish. Just imagine what life must have been like 200 years ago. In 1821 the Spanish Floridas were transferred to the United States by a ceremony in Pensacola. Andrew Jackson presided over the event just a few blocks from our Quina House. The Old Jail was located just across the street from the Quina House. Try to imagine then Governor Andrew Jackson walking past the house on his way to the Jail to conduct official business. The street in front of the house was bustling. There were no sidewalks 200 years ago so foot traffic was just at the edge of the porch. The Quina Family Desiderio Quina bought the house in 1821. He married Margarita Bauve (Bobe) in Pensacola's St. Michael's Catholic Church. The Quina's had seven children, and Dr. Quina ran a thriving apothecary business. Dr. Quina was Pensacola's first known Apothecary. When you tour the home you will learn many more fascinating facts that make the house come to life.
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