Photo: A street scene from the late 1920s with the Marble Bank and Bisbee Building just in frame on the left. The Laura Street Trio is a group of three historic buildings; the Florida Life Building, the Bisbee Building, and the Old Florida National Bank, more commonly known as the Marble Bank. The Marble Bank, [...]
Photo: Annie Lytle fire (January 16, 2012) via Twitter Late Sunday evening, firefighters were to a blaze at 11:20 p.m., arriving at the old Annie Lytle Elementary School to find heavy smoke and fire rising above the ceiling. According to District Chief Jack Griggs of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department, he stated that 90 [...]
Photo(Nomeus, 2011 – Flurbex.com): The hotel’s pooldeck was it’s finest features, surrounded by thick walls and palm trees. At the corner of Main and State Streets in Jacksonville sits the Park View Inn, previously one of the city’s premier lodging destinations is now undergoing demolition after years of neglect and contamination. Originally the “Heart of [...]