Tovar House
The Infantryman Jose Tovar lived on this corner in 1763. The original site and size of his house remained unchanged during the British period, when John Johnson, a Scottish merchant lived here. After the Spanish returned in 1784, Jose Coruna, a Canary Islander with his family and Tomas Caraballo, an assisttan surgeon, occupied the house. Geronimo Alvarez who lived next door in the Gonzalez-Alvarez House, purchased the property in 1791. It remained in his family until 1871. A...
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Tovar House
The Infantryman Jose Tovar lived on this corner in 1763. The original site and size of his house remained unchanged during the British period, when John Johnson, a Scottish merchant lived here. After the Spanish returned in 1784, Jose Coruna, a Canary Islander with his family and Tomas Caraballo, an assisttan surgeon, occupied the house. Geronimo Alvarez who lived next door in the Gonzalez-Alvarez House, purchased the property in 1791. It remained in his family until 1871. A later occupant was Civil War General Martin D. Hardin, USA. The Tovar House has been owned by the St. Augustine Historical Society since 1918. (Information quoted from Historical Marker)
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