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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. The Old Spanish Cathedral.
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ARTISTIC
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No 2438,“ St. Augustine, Fla.
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN,
THE OLD SPANISH CATHEDRAL. The Roman
Catholic Cathedral, a large Moorish edifice, begun in 1793 and
almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1887, was rebuilt and
enlarged a few years later; it now. shows the original front
wall that escaped ruin and was incorporated in the new
building, and the old chime of bells, one bearing the date of
1682, as well as a chime of new ones.
