Mortality and Mourning: A Century of Death

The Ximenez-Fatio House Museum is one of the best-preserved and most authentic Second Spanish Period residential buildings in the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida. Constructed in 1798 by Spanish merchant Don Andres Ximenez, it later became a boarding house run by several enterprising women. The house museum is filled with fascinating artifacts and stories from different eras of the town’s history.

But what you're about to experience in this video is not your ordinary museum tour. These are highlights from Mortality and Mourning: A Century of Death. It's a specialty tour that explores the death and spiritualism practices of different cultures that lived in St. Augustine from the Second Spanish Colonial Era through the Victorian Era. This spooky but family-friendly tour shows how the residents of this house dealt with illnesses, home remedies, last rites, and mourning rituals. It’s a chance to learn and maybe get a little spooked.