No doubt this isn’t in relatively flat Georgia. But even is it in the USA? Take a guess and send in your thoughts to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.
Several people right-off recognized last week’s Mystery Photo. One guy who didn’t get to guess last time was George Graf of Palmyra, Va., who sent in the photo. First in was Bob Hanson of Loganville: “Unless I’m badly mistaken the photo is of Henry Flagler’s Ponce de Leon Hotel in St. Augustine, Fla. If it is not, it is a dead-ringer for it. When I worked in the headquarters of the Florida East Coast Railway in St. Augustine, I could look out my office window diagonally across the street and see this building.”
Annette McIntosh of Lawrenceville sent this in: “This is the Hotel Ponce de Leon opened in 1888. Now it is home to Flagler College in St. Augustine. In its heyday as a hotel it hosted five presidents. The college has restored the hotel, which was originally worked on by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Thomas Edison.”
Patty Clemmons of Lawrenceville wrote: “The picture is of Flagler College in St. Augustine. It was the first hotel built by Henry Flagler, an oil and railroad baron. The original name was Hotel Ponce de Leon. My home town is Lawrenceville, but I was born and raised in St. Augustine.”
Ross Lenhart of Pawley’s Island, S.C.: “This was an easy one for me since I worked with colleges and Flagler College was a client of mine. It is Ponce de Leon Hall of Flagler College.”
Others recognizing the photo were Bob Foreman, Grayson; Tim Sullivan, Buford; Frank Kellert; Mike Sweigart of Duluth; Michael Wood of Peachtree Corners; and Harriett Nicholls, Trickum.
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