Historic Structure Report: Fort Matanzas National Monument
The Fort Matanzas Stabilization Team. 1980. Historic Structure Report: Fort Matanzas National Monument. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Denver, Colorado
Constructed by the Spanish in 1742, Fort Matanzas was built to protect St. Augustine by guarding the Matanzas Inlet. The coquina masonry Fort has served Spanish, British, and American military interests in Florida. Fort Matanzas is a rare surviving example of Spanish fortification as erected in Florida in the 18th century. The structure possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association, and is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. It also embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction. This historic structure report gives a history of and treatment recommendations for the Fort. The stabilization/preservation needs of Fort Matanzas center around four basic issues— the natural dynamics of the site, the coquina fabric, inappropriate repairs, and the impacts of visitation. Within the scope of the recommendations included within are actions necessary to bring about the structural security of Fort Matanzas and its site and to arrest the decay of architectural fabrics to a point that can be managed by a program of cyclic maintenance. However, because of funding limitations only part of the recommendations can be enacted under the present package.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- The Fort Matanzas Stabilization Team
- Date of Issue
- 1980-11
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- FOMA , SER
- Keywords
- Cimarrones, Civil War, coquina, Creek, fort, Indian Wars, masonry, military, rehabilitation, restoration, Seminole, Seminole Wars, Spanish American War, stabilization, treatment
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000350: Fort Matanzas