Mónica Ponce de León, AIA, is dean of the School of Architecture. She is a pioneering educator and award-winning architect who is deeply committed to architectural education. Ponce de León builds ...

On April 2, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon first arrived in what is now Florida - the start of a quest for a miraculous spring whose waters could reverse aging. Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

BRONX, N.Y., Feb. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Directors of the Ponce De Leon Foundation is pleased to announce it has awarded $610,000 to nonprofits that are making a difference in ...

Editor's Note: This series is provided Dr. Sam Turner concerning the arrival of Juan Ponce de Leon in the New World and in honor of the 500th anniversary of Ponce de Leon's arrival. They had be… ...

Ponce de León’s first contract, granted in February 1512, had authorized him to discover and populate Bimini. For his second voyage, he equipped his fleet and sailed for Florida from Puerto ...

Books about Ponce de León at the University of Florida’s P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History range from the 1700s to now and cast the same story in different lights.

Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida in 1513. People have long believed Ponce de Leon landed near St. Augustine. Now Melbourne Beach, 150 miles south, claims the Spaniard landed there instead.

On this day in 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 came ashore on the Florida coast near present-day St. Augustine and claimed the territory for the Spanish crown.

Ponce de Leon Hall was once a hotel called Hotel Ponce de Leon, commissioned by Henry Flagler, the college's namesake. It was one of the stations first electrified buildings, according to historians .