Lost Jacksonville: State and Union Streets

The Afro-American Life Insurance Company at 101 East Union Street. Courtesy of the City of Jacksonville.



Gateway Motors near Main and State in the 1950s. Gateway was replaced with the Heart of Jacksonville hotel (Parkview Inn) a few years after this image was taken. Courtesy of the Jacksonville Public Library Special Collections Department.



This August 1958 aerial of the Cathedral District captures a widened Union Street with historic mixed-use building stock still in place. (State Archives of Florida)