History of Knowles House Bed and Breakfast located in Key West Florida.

ARCHITECTURE

What is now known as the Knowles House Bed and Breakfast, is a classic old Bahamian settler's house exemplifying the sturdy, honest architecture of the island's early pioneer settlers. Built in the 1860's, when Key West was still a young settlement, the Knowles House is typical of the modest middle-class houses built by the intrepid Bahamian's who left their native islands for the greater economic opportunities available in what was, at the time, the boomtown of the Caribbean. Employing the traditional architectural styles familiar to them from their native Bahamas, these enterprising pioneers utilized the abundant wood available in Florida to build the familiar frame "Conch" houses now ubiquitous in Key West, but largely unknown in the rest of View the rest of this article