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What do you do with a beautiful old church in downtown Jacksonville? jacksonville.com - The vacant landmark at Hemming Plaza could recount the massive rebuilding of Jacksonville after the Great Fire, offer poignant snapshots of economic disasters past and present, remember the cigarettes-and-coffee smell…

Museum, archives and research facility planned for historic site jaxdailyrecord.com - It's one of Jacksonville's oldest remaining buildings and chances are you've driven by it but not realized its significance.

The story behind one of Downtown's historic buildings: The Carling jaxdailyrecord.com - Sept. 1, 1926 was a big day in Jacksonville and an even bigger evening. That's when The Carling Hotel at 31 W. Adams St. opened for business and according to…

Jacksonville must move Fire Station 5 or demolish it jacksonville.com - If Jacksonville leaders don't come up with a plan to move old Fire Station No. 5 in the next three months, the nearly century-old building will succumb to the wrecking…

Downtown Historic Church Tour jaxdailyrecord.com - If you'd like to learn about the stories behind Jacksonville's most historically significant churches and see some of the city's greatest architecture, come Downtown Saturday afternoon. The 2009 edition of…

Dyal-Upchurch Building: the history jaxdailyrecord.com - At six stories, it's far from the tallest building Downtown but at one time that distinction was held by the Dyal-Upchurch Building.

Congregation restores history in Jewish section of cemetery jacksonville.com - Mayor John Peyton called it a successful public-private partnership, since the city donated the land to Jacksonville's Jewish community 152 years ago and the congregation financed the recent restoration.

Jacksonville cemetery keeps history alive jacksonville.com - Much of the wording is faded on the weatherbeaten headstones filling Old City Cemetery, but here and there you can still spot a rank and a war: A sergeant here,…

JEDC to amend Downtown historic restoration agreement, restart project jaxdailyrecord.com - An agreement approved by City Council five years ago to grant $400,000 from the Historic Preservation Trust Fund to rehabilitate a building on West Adams Street got some new life…

Historic downtown hotel eyed for renovation jacksonville.com - In the first half of the 20th century, downtown Jacksonville was replete with hotels, from the majestic and lavish to the utilitarian and spartan.

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