City guide
6 buildings worth a detour, each with what to look for. Open them on the map, or walk them with the iPhone app, which collects each one you photograph.
The buildings that define the city's architecture.
First Presbyterian Church, at 102 North Adams Street in Tallahassee, is the oldest church in the city and the oldest building in Florida still used for its original purpose. Its congregation organized on November 4, 1832, and the Greek Revival building was constructed between 1835 and 1838. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 9, 1974.
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The Florida Governor's Mansion, also called the People's House of Florida, is the official residence of the governor of Florida in Tallahassee. Designed by Marion Sims Wyeth to resemble Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, the Colonial Revival building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on July 20, 2006. It holds 30 rooms and 15,000 square feet of living space on 1.5 acres of land.
Photo: Tim Ross , Public domain
The Florida State Capitol complex in downtown Tallahassee sits at Apalachee Parkway and South Monroe Street and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Historic Capitol, also called the Old Capitol, was built in 1845 and nearly demolished in the late 1970s when a new capitol tower rose beside it; instead it was restored to its 1902 appearance in 1982. The New Tower now houses the executive and legislative offices, while the restored historic building holds the Governor's Suite, Supreme Court, House and Senate chambers, and a museum on the state's political history.
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St. John's Episcopal Church, at 211 North Monroe Street in Tallahassee, traces its congregation back to 1829, though the present Gothic-style red brick building dates to 1880 and was dedicated in 1888, after earlier meeting places burned down. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 1978.
Photo: Tim Ross , Public domain
The FSU Student Union is the student center on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee. The current brick building, with a Collegiate Gothic exterior matching most of the campus, officially opened on September 23, 2022, replacing six aged buildings, some nearly 70 years old.
Worth a stop when you're nearby.
The Carnegie Library at FAMU, built in 1908 on the campus of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, is the oldest brick building on campus and the first Carnegie Library built on a Black land-grant college campus. Designed by architect William Augustus Edwards in the Neoclassical style, it was funded through Andrew Carnegie's national library building program and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
Photo: Tim Ross , Public domain
