Wells Print Shop
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.jpg) Wells Print Shop, 2018 | |
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| Location | 27 Cuna St St. Augustine, Florida |
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| Coordinates | 29°54′54″N 81°18′44″W / 29.91500°N 81.31222°W |
| Built | 1968 |
| Architectural style | British Colonial |
| Part of | St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District (ID70000847) |
The Wells Print Shop was located at 27 Cuna Street in St. Augustine, Florida. It operated as part of the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board's 18th century museum village, San Agustín Antiguo, demonstrating the colonial printmaking process.
William Charles Wells was born in 1757 in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of a Tory printer, publisher, and bookseller. He was formally trained as a doctor, receiving a degree in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1780. When the British left Charleston in 1782, William and his brother John moved to St. Augustine where they established a print shop. In St. Augustine the Wells brothers are most well known for publishing the East Florida Gazette, the first newspaper in Florida. After the 1783 Treaty of Paris returned Florida to the Spanish, William Wells went to England and practiced medicine for the rest of his life. He died in London in 1817.[1]
