The house has been here longer than almost anything around it that calls itself historic. Most days, that’s the first thing guests notice walking up Cuna Street.
01 — Built in 1883
A Victorian on a brick-lined street.
The original structure went up in 1883, during the Gilded Age push that gave St. Augustine its second life as a winter resort town. The building has stayed largely intact — heart pine floors, original stained-glass windows, antique fireplaces still set into the walls of several rooms. Restoration over the years has been careful, weighted toward keeping the bones of the place rather than modernizing them.
02 — Cuna Street
A quieter block in the historic district.
Cuna Street is one of the calmer corners of the old city — brick-paved, residential at the edges, just half a block off St. George Street. The Castillo, Flagler College, and the bayfront are all walking distance. Most guests park once on arrival and don’t touch the car again until check-out.
03 — How we run it
Eleven rooms, plus a three-bedroom cottage.
Eleven named rooms in the main house — the gemstones, each with its own character — plus three more in a separate cottage a few houses down, bookable individually or as a whole-cottage group. Breakfast is included and served in the dining room each morning. The aim is for the inn to feel personal, not procedural.