The Monson House was a hotel built during the Flagler Era of the Gilded Age in St Augustine, the house could hold about 300 guests at a time. The Monson House fell victim to a fire in 1914 and returned later as the Monson Motor Lodge. In 1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. attempted to stay at the whites only Monson Motor Lodge and was refused service. During a protest to integrate the hotel the owner, James Brock, poured acid into his swimming pool when a group of black men jumped in.

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Text by Erik Hendricksen