JHS believes past should be preserved


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  • | 12:00 p.m. May 21, 2007
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Attorney Ed Booth, vice president of the Jacksonville Historical Society and chairman of its Historic Sites committee, has announced an inventory of buildings the organization has identified as “priority structures.” The list includes Brewster Hospital on Monroe Street, the former Federal Reserve Bank on Hogan Street, Panama Park School on Lawton Avenue, Fire Station No. 5 on Riverside Avenue and the Seminole Club on Hogan Street at Hemming Plaza among others. Booth said the society feels the buildings are “the most endangered in terms of falling down or being torn down” and all could be adapted to other uses. He added, “So much of our architectural heritage has disappeared in the last 50 years. We want to encourage people to recognize the history represented by these buildings.”

 

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