One of the best educational deals around is located in downtown St Augustine. It’s called Flagler College – a 4 year liberal arts school of about 3000 students. Aside from being surrounded by history, great amenities & perfect beaches & parks – it comes with a reasonable price tag – $19 grand a year including room & board. It’s also a highly rated school according to U S News & World Report, among others. These are just a few pictures which hopefully show the school’s more unique features.

The school was built by Henry Flagler as a hotel – where big-wigs like presidents & Thomas Edison stayed. It was the 1st hotel with electric lights – but that’s another story. The fountain (payin’ attention?) is surrounded by 12 frogs & the part in the middle represents a sword plunged into the earth. It works like a fountain & a sun dial.

This is part of the courtyard – there’s a blend of architectural design throughout. Moorish, Roman, Spanish – all tied together.

This view is from a courtyard across the street – trying to show the roof & the dramatic towers from a short distance.

Ho-Hum, just the ceiling art. Every school should have domes & gold painted ceilings.

If you turned right, from the courtyard where the overall shot of the main building was taken, & walked 50 yards – this is where you would end up. One of many cool shopping & dining locations. It’s a pretty clean town dontcha think?

If you said this looked like Tiffany Glass – You would be right – 30 million dollars worth – & this is in the dining room that the students use.

See – Toldja. Imagine kids eating pizza & corndogs surrounded by such expensive art. The chairs in the picture are mostly reproductions of the originals – though there are some 100+ year old chairs (valued at $22K each) mixed in with the fake $2k chairs. There’s a secret about how to figure out the difference between the two types. Visit St A & I’ll let you in on the mystery of which ones are “the cheap seats”.