A Brief History of Phosphate Mining in Florida Noralyn Mine is a phosphate mine located in the Bone Vallery region of Florida. The Hawthorn Foundation is a layer of clay and limestone deposited...
A Brief History of Phosphate Mining in Florida Noralyn Mine is a phosphate mine located in the Bone Vallery region of Florida. The Hawthorn Foundation is a layer of clay and limestone deposited...
Located at the Intracoastal Mall in North Miami Beach, it opened in the late-1980s as an eight-screen movie theater. Despite renovations in later years, customers complained of it being outdated and...
Once a low-income housing complex built in the 1960s, it became the subject of a decade long court battle for ownership of the property. In 2005, 206 mainly elderly investors pitched in $25,000...
Postcard for the Barnett National Bank Building, Jacksonville, Florida. Postmarked February 22, 1939. Abandoned Atlas Archives History of Jacksonville’s Barnett National Bank Building In the...
Marble Bank The Laura Street Trio is a group of three historic buildings located at the corner of Forsyth and Laura Streets in downtown Jacksonville. The Trio consists of two skyscrapers, the Florida...
Judaism in Jacksonville Located near the Horace Drew Mansion in Springfield lies the old Jacksonville Jewish Center, later known as the Jacksonville Job Corps Center. Its history dates back to 1901...
Coconut Grove Playhouse Richard Kiehnel, Architect Originally constructed as a movie theater, the Coconut Grove Playhouse was designed by Richard Kiehnel of the renowned architecture firm, Kiehnel...
Duval County Armory The Duval County Armory was constructed in 1916 at the cost of $150,000 to replace an armory destroyed in the Great Fire of 1901. The Gothic Revival style building was designed by...
St. Petersburg Historic YMCA The St. Petersburg chapter of the YMCA was organized in June 1920. The YMCA building located downtown was constructed in 1927 with the help of $550,000 in community...
Claude Nolan Cadillac Building The Claude Nolan Cadillac Building on Main Street was originally designed by Henry J. Klutho, famous in northeast Florida for his Prairie Style architectural designs...
Balbin Bros. Cigar Factory The story of West Tampa’s former Balbin Brothers Cigar Factory dates back to 1904 when the three-story brick Romanesque Revival style building was built for the...
The Glades Inn was built in 1988 and was really nothing special about it, just your typical motel located at the end of town. It closed down in 2006. In 2015, the county took control of the property...
The first edition of the Miami Evening Record was published on September 15, 1903. The newspaper began suffering from server financial difficulties following the recession in 1907. Frank B. Shutts...
Mortal Kombat and Ms. Pac-Man cabinets, some of the popular arcade games of the time The first arcade games were the old midway of the 1920s which included shooting galleries, ball-toss games, and...
History of Public School No. 8 The Architects Richard Lewis Brown, Jacksonville’s First Black Architect Now recognized as Public School No. 8, the institution originally opened in 1909 as the...
Fashion Mall opened in early 1988 with Lord and Taylor as an anchor store. Macy’s opened as the mall’s second anchor store, just before the 1988 holiday season and before the completion...
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