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Two decades before I was born, my mother married her first husband here, Woodlawn Baptist Church. She knew it was a mistake, she said, but she was “lonesome” and her parents were always fighting. Church was an alternate world to school, where she felt shy and awkward. Now Woodlawn Baptist stands abandoned. The firefighters’ union is considering tearing it down. It almost made its 100th birthday before it closed. 

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The year the old house was built is carved into its porch posts: 1885. It birthed the only hospital for black patients in Jim Crow Jax. Nursing student Lakeshia Sutton stayed with her aunt and uncle in the old building when it was a boarding house and she was a little girl. She feels nursing was a calling, but hadn’t known the “mansion” her aunt called home was “Old Brewster Hospital.”

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It’s a Mid-Century Modern mystery. Who designed this strange and wondrous house? There are clues. Judge Daniel Wilensky has lived here, with brief exceptions, for 60 years. It’s been described as “Fairyland,” the “Arabian Nights House” and “Fort Wilensky.” One thing is for sure: there’s no other house like it. 

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For years Atlantic Beach didn’t want the Voo-Swar, even tried to shut it down. Earnest Davis had built this restaurant and lounge by hand. He saw how black sailors were treated when they came into town. “And so I said, ‘I’m gonna build a place and give ’em a place to come.” Eventually, he’d bring this beach town together in ways few others ever had.

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It’s where Tedesha Richardson goes for “peace” and “spiritual release.” Even though when Dr. E.H. Armstrong founded the neighborhood of Riverview in the 19-teens, she wouldn’t have been allowed here. Even though Armstrong was a bit of a con man. Even though cars with “human remains” are pulled out of river here. On this dock, Tedesha feels on top of the world.