The porch posts, brackets, and spindles reflect the Eastlake style. It exemplifies the Queen Anne style, with a square tower on the southwest corner and an elaborate vergeboard in the north gable.
In 1886 Merrill built this house at 229 Lafayette Street, just a short walk from his iron works on East Bay Street. Known as the Merrill-Stevens Engineering Co., by the late 1880s the iron works became one of the largest shipbuilding companies in the South. Merrill started a small iron works in Jacksonville after learning the black-smithing trade from his father. The Merrill residence is the largest and most architecturally interesting of the 19th-century houses remaining in East Jacksonville.
Philip Randolph Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32202 Andrew’s is available for wedding and event rentals?Ĭlick here to book your rental consultation appointment for Old St. Andrew’s stands proudly today as one of the finest specimens of 19th-century architecture in Duval County, and it is a popular spot for meetings, weddings and other civic events. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Foundation, JHS was able to raise a million dollars to complete the restoration of the old church to use as its headquarters. Thanks to the city’s cooperation and a challenge grant from the J. The Jacksonville Historical Society was given the rights to the building if it could restore it. With the coming of the NFL football team in 1993, the city government purchased much of the land around the newly-constructed stadium, including the Old St. Ironically, the Jacksonville Jaguars helped save it. Vacant for over a decade, the building was one of the most perplexing challenges facing local preservationists. The tower rises to a height of 120 feet, at one time the tallest in the city.īy the 1970s, however, the once populous residential area around the church had faded, the congregation had moved to a new church in Arlington, and the building had fallen into disuse and disrepair. The interior woodwork of the building is Florida pine, and the doors are made of solid mahogany.
The chancel and nave are separated by three arches of masonry. The ground plan is cruciform, with the vestry-room on one side and the organ-chamber on the other forming the transepts. It is built of pressed brick laid in black mortar, with stone trimmings. This towering Gothic church, which once served as the Jacksonville Historical Society headquarters, was constructed in 1888, and was the only major church to survive Jacksonville’s Great Fire of 1901. Additionally, the Society announced plans to create a music history museum, which may be located on the first floor, and a performance venue on the third floor of the building.ģ17 A. It is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Historical Society to provide the community with one central location to study all aspects of local history.Ĭurrently, the Society is conducting a capital campaign to raise funds to renovate the second floor of the Casket Factory to serve as an archival processing and storage facility to house our many sensitive collections in a secure, stable environment. By all measures–organizational, management, financial and potential–it is larger than anything we have ever done before. Our Palmetto Street campus has exciting potential and sobering challenges. The offices of the Society are located in Old St. The purchase allowed the Society to consolidate its large and scattered archives collection, and to provide the public with a wide range of document preservation programs and materials for the preservation, exhibition and study of all aspects of the history of Jacksonville. Luke’s Hospital and the adjacent Florida Casket Company building, built circa 1920, with the intention of creating a new center for Jacksonville’s history. In 2012, the Jacksonville Historical Society purchased St. Luke’s Hospital and the adjacent Florida Casket Company, circa 1937.
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