Blacksmith Shop (St. Augustine, Florida)
The Old Blacksmith Shop is at 26 Charlotte Street in St. Augustine, Florida. It’s a reconstruction of an 18th‑century outbuilding from the British era. The oldest known record of the site is from 1771. In 1782 the property was sold to David Morran, who rented one of the buildings to a blacksmith. After the 1783 Treaty of Paris returned Florida to Spain, Morran left for England, but his wife stayed to manage the sale of the property, which eventually went to Spaniards.
The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board began rebuilding the shop in late 1967 and finished in 1968. The nearby Judson Property home on the site was demolished in 1967. The new 12-by-16‑foot wooden outbuilding was built from pine logs using period methods with a broad axe and adze. It had a dirt floor, no windows, and no insulation. In the 1970s it operated as a working blacksmith shop for San Agustín Antiguo. The board aimed to recreate an 18th‑century shop and installed a double forge. A blacksmith, descended from early Minorcan settlers, worked there making horseshoes and other ironwork for Preservation Board properties.
Today the Blacksmith Shop houses a coffee shop, Crucial Coffee Café, managed for the state by the University of Florida Historic St. Augustine, Inc.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 13:24 (CET).