One block apart along East Adams Street is one of Downtown's oldest landmarks, a home built months after the Great Fire of 1901, and one of the newest, a mural on the Yates Building parking garage.
The two-story brick home at 332 E. Adams St. was built by hardware dealer J.B. Bours to replace his home that was destroyed in the fire.
It is an example of the late Queen Anne style of architecture, including decorative scrollwork and an asymmetrical floor plan.
One of the few remaining early 20th-century residential structures Downtown, the home, now offices for a bail bonds agency, is a reminder of what the neighborhood was like more than 100 years ago.
The new mural on the northeast corner of the Yates Building parking garage by artists Felici Astienza and Joey Fillastre, is almost finished.
The St. Augustine-based painters are members of the Milagros Art Collective. They were commissioned to create the 50-foot-tall mural through the City's Art in Public Places program, administered by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville.
Along Adams Street at the foot of the Hart Bridge ramp entering the urban core, the location for the mural was chosen to serve as a "gateway to Downtown," said Christie Holechek, Art in Public Places program manager.
A ceremony to dedicate the mural, and another on the northwest corner of the garage, is planned Aug. 7 in conjunction with First Wednesday Art Walk.
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