Jacksonville Beach
Casa Marina Hotel
A 1925 Mediterranean Revival hotel around an ocean-facing courtyard, opened the day Pablo Beach was renamed Jacksonville Beach.
- Built
- 1925built 1925 as a hotel and restaurant; opened June 6, 1925
- Style
- Mediterranean Revival (NRIS: Mission/Spanish Revival)
- Architect
- Marsh & Saxelbye (builder: G.W. Hessler, Inc.)
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Rooms
- 23
- Price
- $
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
The Casa Marina opened on June 6, 1925, the same day the town of Pablo Beach was renamed Jacksonville Beach. It was designed by Marsh & Saxelbye, the area’s leading 1920s architects, and built by G.W. Hessler, Inc. as a fireproof Mediterranean Revival hotel around an ocean-facing courtyard. During World War II it served as barracks for Navy personnel from nearby Mayport, then returned to hotel and restaurant use; Jacksonville mayor and Florida governor Haydon Burns was once a shareholder. By the early 1980s it operated only as a restaurant, and after a 1987 bank foreclosure it stood vacant until owners rehabilitated it to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards. The 1993 NRHP nomination calls it the last historic hotel remaining at the Jacksonville beaches. The hotel says celebrities including Jean Harlow and Al Capone stayed in its early years.
Good to know
- Breakfast: included
- Address: 691 1st Street North, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.