Visitor Center entry from parking facility, Alfred Simson ALFRED RICHARDSON SIMSON SUGGESTIONS FOR HISTORICAL ART & A PERMANENT ENHANCEMENT FOR THE CITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE VISITORS INFORMATION CENTER During 2009, Bill Adams, Director of the St. Augustine Trust for Historic Preservation, suggested I survey the interior of the entrance hail of the St. Augustine Tourist Center in order to advise changes that would enhance the visitor experience. During my recent visit there, ¡ found the entry to have the same commercial atmosphere that inspired my thoughts for the enclosed sketch made in 2009. This historic building, conceived to represent the city’s identity, deserves a prominent entrance for the decorum and civic pride that this ancient city represents. Currently, the entrance corridor seems devoid of decoration excepting water fountain, coin machine, commercial display, historic artifacts in frames which are not easily interpreted and mundane furniture which dominates the entrance hallway. My original thoughts for the building entrance conceived the majesty of period Spain in the ambiance of soft chandelier lighting, jasper columns, wrought iron partitions, lanterns, marble flooring and benches, baroque mirrors, balustrade, tapestries, coats of arms and grand scale oil canvas panels of relevant historic events in the city’s history to be placed on the side walls of the second hallway area, perhaps enhanced by recordings of soft Spanish classic guitar. The heraldic crest and wrought iron side decorations as seen in my sketch announce the second portion of the hail, intersected by side building entries. The side walls of this section would contain facing 4x8 foot lighted oil canvases, sided by flanking torcheres.