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Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« on: October 01, 2009, 06:02:46 AM »
Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School



Have a look inside one of Jacksonville's most endangered historic structures: Annie Lytle Public School Number Four.

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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2009-oct-ruins-of-jacksonville-annie-lytle-public-school
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2009, 06:18:34 AM »
Yes, I am told that it was briefly Central Christian School in the early 1970s.  My aunt was a student there.
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2009, 06:48:46 AM »
Looks in pretty bad shape... :(
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2009, 06:57:56 AM »
I've always thought the auditorium area would make a great live music venue.



I know it's probably not feasible financially, but out of all the possible uses for Annie Lytle, a club/music venue makes sense to me since most people wouldn’t want to live under a highway overpass. Or at the very least a cultural venue of some sort, museum etc.

« Last Edit: October 01, 2009, 07:01:35 AM by David »
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2009, 07:40:23 AM »
You could have the best Hall of Terror / haunted house there.  Ever.  Period.
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2009, 07:56:23 AM »
It would make for one hell of a haunted house for Halloween!
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2009, 08:07:39 AM »
Why is it that Jacksonville can't embrace and cherish its historical buildings, instead of abandoning everything like an out-of-vogue strip-mall?  I totally agree that this would be a perfect location for a music/cultural/multi-purpose venue, but then again, this city wouldn't understand culture if it stood up and hit it over the head with a large-print, KJV Bible.

That's the legacy of Jacksonville....potential never fully realized.
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2009, 08:28:35 AM »
Looks like one of those Detriot schools that was in the link in a different thread. 

There is a school VERY similiar to Lytle in Washington D.C.  that was converted into a Health Club.  Like Lytle it is within splitting distance of a raised highway.

It is popular, functional and totally cool looking.

YMCA, are you reading this ??

 
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2009, 09:36:45 AM »
Why would the Y want to go into there?
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2009, 09:44:37 AM »
Bring that Skyway from Riverside Av to Roselle, and from Roselle make a sharp left coming in with one line on each side of the auditorium, second floor. Below that running crosswise under the Skyway, you create another
Rosa Parks, with streetcar pre installed. Lastly, revamp the diagonal sidewalk in Riverside Park, to accommodate pedestrian and bike traffic, brand it with a name like "Paseo Grande" (Grand Walk).

Inside the building, you do exactly as the others have suggested. Take the auditorium as a fantastic pup and theater. The rest of the building gets built out as TOD shops, art studios, craft and other unusual microbusinesses.

POOF, when the trains, buses and streetcars arrive the place would take off like Moody's Goose!

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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2009, 10:00:32 AM »
Encounter any ghosts, Stephen?
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2009, 10:06:20 AM »
Quote from: SunKing on October 01, 2009, 09:36:45 AM
Why would the Y want to go into there?
Why do they want to go in strip malls and office parks?
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2009, 10:26:23 AM »
Don't know what file I stuck them in but it's got to be somewhere on the memory card... before the camera went skinny dipping at Lake Eufaula, Oklahoma. I'll see if I can recover them and maybe we could do another photo article.

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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2009, 10:51:00 AM »
Quote from: David on October 01, 2009, 06:57:56 AM
I've always thought the auditorium area would make a great live music venue.



I know it's probably not feasible financially, but out of all the possible uses for Annie Lytle, a club/music venue makes sense to me since most people wouldn’t want to live under a highway overpass. Or at the very least a cultural venue of some sort, museum etc.



I still think that this could easily translate into the P.S.1 of the south:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.S.1_Contemporary_Art_Center
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Re: Ruins of Jacksonville: Annie Lytle Public School
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2009, 11:19:26 AM »
Quote from: stephendare on October 01, 2009, 10:41:07 AM

BTW, it was quite the sight to see the two of us hoisting up and crawling through broken windows to enter (Doug, if your reading, thanks for not shooting us!)
Not to be the wet blanket here but since this building is condemned as being way to dangerous for humans to be in, basically you guys were trespassing. Did you have the current owners permission to go inside? And if so, they had no right to allow you in.
Sorry Stephen. Even though the pictures are tremendous, that was really a foolish thing to do.
Just my two cents. Flame away.
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