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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.