Collins Hotel

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The Collins Hotel was a early Pensacola hotel in operation during the antebellum period in the early- to mid-nineteenth century. The proprietor was Antoine Collins and his wife Mary Pyburn Collins.

The hotel was in operation by 1829, as accounts of a ball in honor of George Washington's Birthday were reported in social news in South Carolina and .

In February 1841, the hotel was burned down by fire. The hotel burned again in 1852, but was rebuilt by 1858.

The Collins' lost the hotel during the Civil War.