The first building along East Bay Street is one of Downtown’s most historic.
The six-story brick and Indiana limestone structure was the first structure to rise from the ashes after the Great Fire of 1901.
It was designed by architects Henry John Klutho and J.W. Golucke for the Dyal-Upchurch Co., a Georgia-based lumber and investment firm that relocated to Jacksonville immediately after the fire.
Built on 426 wooden pilings driven into the riverbed, the building qualifies as a high-rise, but it is not a “skyscraper,” according to the technical definition, because the outer walls bear the load of the structure.
Soon after the building was dedicated in May 1902, the Atlantic National Bank was formed and for many years occupied most of the ground floor.
The Dyal-Upchurch Building was restored in 1981 and was the first in Jacksonville to use federal historic rehabilitation tax credits. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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