Posted on March 3, 2021
By Marcia Hodgson
Neighborhood News, Riverside, Avondale, Ortega, Murray Hill, Top Stories
Move over Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, there is a new “micro” art gallery in Riverside. Visible only to pedestrians, joggers, and perhaps slow-moving cyclists, the new Cherry Museum sits adjacent to Cherry Street, just inside the walls of the Riverside Avenue home of nationally renowned artist Lana Shuttleworth and her husband, Jacksonville Architectural […]
Posted on March 4, 2020
By Editor
Columns, Senior Residents, The Way We Were
Many years before Wayne W. Wood, 74, became a noted historian, author, and the founder of Riverside Avondale Preservation, he was just a kid from Belle Glade in South Florida visiting grandparents Guy D. and Elma T. Wood during the summers in Riverside. That was decades before he would run a successful optometry business in […]
Posted on March 2, 2020
By Editor
Riverside, Avondale, Ortega, Murray Hill, Top Stories
It was standing room only at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd when a crowd of 200 attended the Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP) annual meeting Feb. 20, which featured a change in board leadership, a list of annual preservation award winners and the beginning of a history series taught by RAP Founder Wayne Wood. […]
Posted on January 1, 2020
By Editor
Riverside, Avondale, Ortega, Murray Hill
The window to nominate an outstanding historic preservation contributor for a Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP) Award is fast approaching. The awards honor individuals, organizations, and businesses in the historic districts that make singular contributions to historic preservation in the neighborhoods. Award winners are selected from community nominations. This year, the deadline to nominate is by […]
Posted on November 27, 2019
By Editor
Articles, Brooklyn, Downtown, Springfield, Neighborhood News, Top Stories
After the successful rehabilitation and build-out of the historic National Barnett Bank Building, Steve Atkins of the Southeast Group says he is focusing next on what area preservationists have described as the most endangered historical buildings in Jacksonville. The three buildings known as the Laura Street Trio are the Florida National Bank Building, the Bisbee […]
Posted on November 27, 2019
By Editor
Articles, Brooklyn, Downtown, Springfield, Neighborhood News, Riverside, Avondale, Ortega, Murray Hill, Top Stories
Brooklyn’s old Fire Station 5, with its dun-colored bricks, red bay doors and more than a century of history, is in danger of being demolished if someone doesn’t step up to move and preserve the building. The station was constructed less than a decade after the great fire razed the city in 1901, right on […]