Print ArticleIf you're the type of person who believes in ghost, ghouls, and goblins, here are few sites in town you might want to avoid this weekend.
Ambassador Hotel
Photograph courtesy of Nomeus
The first upscale apartments in downtown Jacksonville, the Ambassador Hotel originally opened in 1924 as 310 West Church Street Apartments. In 1944, it was converted into a hotel. Its Senator George Smathers suite was the room that Smathers slept in on May 2, 1950, the night he defeated Senator Claude Pepper for nomination to the United States Senate. However, by the time the 1980's crack epidemic came, the Ambassador and its seedy Downtowner Lounge had become a dilapidated den of wickedness with rooms being rented for $15/day to transients. It's been 15 years since it was shut down and closed for good by code enforcement. Let's just hope that whenever someone reopens its doors, they won't have an Amityville horror situation on their hands.
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