Welcome to Colonial St. Augustine Foundation

Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is the oldest city in the United States and this nation's first European colonial settlement. The city's colonial heritage testifies eloquently to the contributions that Spain and Spanish-speaking people have made to the settlement and cultural development of the United States. Yet, despite St. Augustine's first-rank historical importance, preservation of the city's magnificent collection of buildings, statues, and archaeological materials have suffered national and even statewide neglect.

          Should our nation's historic treasures look like this?

Colonial St. Augustine Foundation, organized in 2002, has forged a public-private partnership to continue a seven-decade long restoration program by assembling help in preserving the colonial city. This should be a national and even international responsibility, but it is one that is presently relegated to a small city and its mere 12,000 inhabitants. The colonial-era resources within the city, consisting of thirty-six pre-1821 buildings and over four centuries of culturally rich archaeological materials, constitute one of the nation's most significant coloinial treasures. For some seventy years, St. Augustine has managed to preserve those historic resources against the ravages of time, climate and modern change, but the city can no longer do it alone and we need your help.

Colonial St. Augustine is in jeopardy, and we need your help.

Donate or Purchase a Commemorative Brick today!

To find out more about the monuments pictured above, click here.

Colonial St. Augustine Foundation is located in the Government House in downtown St. Augustine.