Hear the Key West "Voices of Historyâ„¢" on our Phone Tour (305) 507-0300
Come experience 120 Historic Markers in the Largest Historic District of Frame Buildings in the United States. See photos and listen to the history and stories these buildings have to tell. Take a self-guided tour and discover a little piece of paradise.
The first City Hall was a wooden building built in 1871. I was consumed in the Great Fire of 1886. This stately brick structure was completed in 1892 in an era when all bricks and building materials had to be transported from the mainland in sailing ships. Over the years, it has been used by Monroe County for juvenile court. By 1974, the State of Florida acquired the building and it was restored for use as the City of Key West Court House.