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  • Center
    • Adams Building / James Inn / St. James Recovery Center
    • Alley Between Bay Street and Forsyth (Between Nick Dunkenstein and the Newnan Street Sphinx)
    • Ambassador Hotel
    • Ambassador Hotel, Carrie’s Room
    • Andrew Jackson Statue, Downtown
    • Archive Room, Downtown
    • Armory, Downtown
    • Barnett National Bank Tower
    • Bay Street: Writers’ End, Downtown (Hamilton Jay at Bettelini’s, Sam Russ at the Melrose)
    • Berkman II: The Ruins (Or, 23-Story Haunted House), Downtown
    • Berney’s Restaurant, Downtown
    • Brooklyn: Avon Apartments / Sam’s Grocery
    • Brooklyn: Avon Apartments / Sam’s Grocery (After the Fire)
    • Brooklyn: Brooklyn Riverside Apartments / Les Paul Garner’s House
    • Brooklyn: Buffalo Soldier’s House
    • Brooklyn: Chamblin Bookmine, Part 4
    • Brooklyn: Chamblin Bookmine, Part 5
    • Brooklyn: Fat Round’s Place
    • Brooklyn: Last House Standing; or, How “Brooklyn” Killed Brooklyn
    • Brooklyn: Mt. Calvary Baptist Church (for Thou Art with Me)
    • Brooklyn: Mt. Calvary Baptist Church (The Newman Years)
    • Brooklyn: Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, Spruce and Dora Streets
    • Brooklyn: Myrtle Avenue Underpass / Tunnel / Subway
    • Brooklyn: Reggie Bridges’s House / WATG Radio / Unofficial Brooklyn Museum
    • Burro Bar and London Bridge, Downtown
    • Cathedral District: Elena Flats
    • Cathedral District: The Bodies in Billy Goat Hill
    • Chamblin’s Uptown
    • Chamblin’s Uptown: Gus and Company Building
    • Chamblin’s Uptown: The Steel Vault Biography Room
    • Church of the Immaculate Conception (Oh Sister Mary Ann!)
    • Confederate Memorial Removed from Hemming Park
    • CSX Transportation Center, Downtown
    • De Real Ting, Furchgott’s, Post Office Tower, Downtown
    • Drew Building, H. & W.B.
    • Duncan Fletcher House, Thomas Porter House, William Ware House and James Taliaferro House (The Intersection: Church X Julia)
    • Duval County Courthouse KKK Standoff
    • Duval High School, Downtown: the Last Living Student (2011) of the Last Graduating Class (1927)
    • El Modelo Building, Part 1: A Murder, A Revolution
    • El Modelo Building, Part 2: A Dying Declaration, A War Cry, A Peace Treaty
    • El Modelo Building, Part 3: Resurrection, Envy and Martyrdom
    • Embers Restaurant, Universal Marion Building, JEA Tower
    • Fairfield: Debre Berhan Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church / Fairfield Methodist Church
    • Fairfield: Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant
    • Fairfield: James E. Merrill House
    • Fairfield: Lafarge Cement Silos / Crooms and Mahmoud Murals
    • Fairfield: Mount Olive A.M.E. Church
    • Fairfield: Roseland House, Foot of Clarkson Street
    • Fairfield: Sloan / McQueen House
    • First Baptist Church
    • First Baptist Church Lighthouse Replica
    • Florida Theatre, Downtown
    • Football Stadium, Eastside, Downtown
    • Fuller Warren Toll Bridge (Dead Woman in the Back Seat)
    • Hansontown / Downtown Campus, Florida State College at Jacksonville
    • Hart Tomb Tower
    • Haydon Burns Library, Downtown
    • Heart of Jacksonville Hotel, Downtown and Springfield
    • Hemming Park: Race and Brutality in the Genius Loci
    • Hemming Plaza: Exact Center Point
    • Hemming Plaza: MOCA Jacksonville and City Hall and Clay Yarborough
    • Hogan’s Creek and the Emerald Necklace
    • Hogans House, Downtown
    • Independent Life Building / Wells Fargo (Incidents in the Life of a Skyscraper)
    • Jacksonville Free Public Library
    • Jacksonville Landing: The Last Days
    • Jacksonville Trisect Sculpture
    • Jacobs Jewelers / Greenleaf and Crosby Clock
    • Klutho’s Head and the Prairie Style Tree-of-Life
    • LaRose’s, Downtown
    • LaVilla: Black Masonic Temple
    • LaVilla: Blind Blake Walking, West Ashley Street
    • LaVilla: Clara White Mission (The Moral and Ethical Heart of Jacksonville)
    • LaVilla: Eartha White’s Bedroom, Clara White Mission
    • LaVilla: Hillman-Pratt & Walton (The Oldest Funeral Home in Florida)
    • LaVilla: Lawton Pratt Funeral Home
    • LaVilla: Pedro and Padrica Mendez House
    • LaVilla: Perk and Loretta’s Soul Lounge
    • LaVilla: Progress Furniture Company
    • LaVilla: Richmond Hotel
    • LaVilla: Terminal Hotel
    • LaVilla: The Court and the House of Spanish Marie
    • LaVilla: Whetstonian
    • LaVilla: Whetstonian’s Last Days? / The Mural of Walter Whetstone’s Life
    • Lions of Drew and McConihe
    • Main Street Bridge
    • Mayflower Hotel, Parking Lot, Green Panels, Downtown
    • Moulton and Kyle / Kyle-McLellan Funeral Home
    • Old City Cemetery: Joseph Finegan’s Grave
    • Old City Cemetery: Mother Kofi’s Mausoleum
    • Old St. Luke’s Hospital, Historical Archives
    • Ossachite Marker
    • Palms Hotel and Rooming House
    • Phoenix / East Jacksonville: School Number 8
    • Plaza Hotel / Bexley House
    • Pond, The Pasture, The Pond
    • Prudential Plaza One, the Original Prudential Life Insurance Building, the Tallest Building in the City over a Half Century Ago, the Aetna Building, the Wrong Road
    • Roosevelt Hotel, The Carling, Downtown
    • Seminole Club and Sweet Pete’s All-Natural Confectionary
    • Slum Heart
    • Southbank: Friendship Fountain
    • Southbank: Jessie Ball DuPont Park & Treaty Oak
    • Southbank: Riverplace Tower
    • Southbank: The Fire inside the Treaty Oak
    • Tallest Building in the City, Every 145 Years
    • Talleyrand Wastes (Walt Walks, Performing Depth Soundings)
    • Thomas Porter House
    • Union Terminal Warehouse, Chamblin Bookmine Storage
    • Union Terminal Warehouse, East Union Street
    • Wacca Pilatka and Ossachite (Imaginary Indian Metropolis)
    • Waters beneath the Merrick House, Downtown
    • Wesley B. Plott’s Downtown Bottlescape
    • Whipping Post
    • William Morgan, Architects and McMurray Livery
    • Worman’s Bakery and Deli, Downtown
    • Yellow Jack in Jacksonville: A Pandemic
  • North
    • Ace Motel / Capri Motel, Main Street
    • Adorkaville
    • Avenue B: Silver Star and Havana Nite Club
    • Babyland
    • Black Hammock Island: Buddy’s Fish Camp y Santa Cruz y San Buenaventura de Guadalquini
    • Black Rock Beach / Boneyard Beach (Big Talbot Island)
    • Brentwood Park Bandstand and Comfort Station and Parthenon
    • Bullet Bob’s Grave
    • Callahan: 1. Johnson House Bloodstains and Rattlesnakes in the Road
    • Callahan: 2. Musslewhite Farm, Black Town and the Klan Rally
    • Callahan: 3. Jingles the Dog and the Workers’ Quarters
    • Callahan: 4. Pete Wright’s Buried-Alive Bride, Moonshine, and the Rainbow Restaurant
    • Car-Ma-Geddon, Heckscher Drive
    • Carver Manor: Richardson Road
    • Cedar Point Ruins
    • Clapboard Creek: White Shell Fish Camp
    • Cleveland Heights: Cleveland Road at Lockhart Drive
    • Coca-Cola Bottling Company (New Springfield)
    • Dames Point
    • Dinsmore Dairy
    • Durkee Field / J.P. (Bubbling) Small Stadium
    • Durkeeville: Fairfax Street Wood Treaters / Howard Feed Mills / American Motors Export Company
    • Durkeeville: Jax Beer Building
    • Durkeeville: Kennelly Building; Ballot Cures, ‘Black Votes Matter,’ ‘Red Ball Building’ Goes Blue
    • Evergreen Cemetery: Muslim Burials and the Founder of the City
    • Fairview Peninsula at Trout River: Rusted Wrought-Iron Leafwork and Blooms, Harriet Avenue
    • Fort George Island
    • Fort George Island Crypts
    • Fort George Island: Neff House and Betz Sphere
    • Fort George Island: Neff House Witch Project
    • Fort George Island: Sandollar Restaurant and Marina
    • Fred Cotten’s Barbecue
    • Gary’s Ice Cream / Creamette
    • Gateway Mall and Shopping Center / Yellow Fever Burials / Sand Hills Hospital
    • Gator Hole
    • Gonny Gonzales Tabby House Ruins
    • Grand Park
    • Harbor View: What Ever Happened to Beverly June? Part 1
    • Harry Crews’s Childhood Nightmare Northside
    • Ideal Trailer Park
    • Jacksonville Zoo (for Harry Crews, Jiggs and Gandai)
    • Lake Forest Peninsula: Empty House Flea Syndrome
    • Lincoln Villas: Jesus Christ the Son of God Holiness unto the Lord Revival Church (and the Voices of Women)
    • Little Talbot Island Shipwreck
    • Long Branch (Voodoo at East 27th and the Railroad Tracks)
    • Lynching of Johnnie Mae Chappell
    • Magnolia Gardens / Gardenvale: St. Paul Lutheran Church
    • Moncrief Cemetery District
    • Moncrief Park: Saturday Night Prior to the GMAC Mass Shooting
    • Moncrief Springs: Three Corinthian Columns
    • New Berlin Crab Shack
    • New Berlin: Goat Island and Christopher’s Pier
    • New Berlin: Grey Hotel
    • North Shore: Mulberry Street (“And to Think That I Saw It on”), the Line between Where It’s Raining and Where It’s Not
    • North Shore: Rolliston Park
    • North Shore: Tip Top Tavern / Randall’s Ranch House Restaurant
    • North Shore: Where the Rain Tree Was
    • Norwood: Standard Turpentine Co., Glidden, SCM Organics, SCM Glidco, Millennium Specialty Chemicals, Renessenz LLC, Symrise
    • Oceanway: Catherine Tourist Court
    • Oceanway: Christel and George Bartchlett Folk Art Collection
    • Old Panama Road
    • Panama Park: Seafarer’s Marina
    • Pecan Park Flea Market and Beer Pond
    • Potter’s Field (Hillside Cemetery) and Howell’s Morning Glory Chapel
    • Pumpkin Hill: Anderson Cemetery (Annette’s and Mylette’s Memorial)
    • Pumpkin Hill: Verse Versus at Five Acre Spread
    • Riverhills Park: The Pig, the Teardrop Tattoos, the House Trailer, and the Deep Beauty on Third Avenue
    • Royal Terrace: Camphor Berries and Embers
    • Sawyers Addition / Ritchieville: Marian’s House on Janette Street
    • Shantyboat, Trout River (& Lynn Skapyak Harlin)
    • Slappey’s Town of Ghent Motel
    • Spiritual Lighthouse Church
    • Springfield Community Garden, Main Street
    • Springfield Hospital for Abortions and Adoptions, Part 1: Incomplete Abortion, Criminal
    • Springfield Hospital for Abortions and Adoptions, Part 2: Obscenity, Dizzy Spells, Birth Fathers
    • Springfield Hospital for Abortions and Adoptions, Part 3: Holes in the Story
    • Springfield: Barnett Mansion
    • Springfield: Big Jim
    • Springfield: Brown Museum of Art
    • Springfield: Confederate Park: Monument “In Memory of Our Women of the Southland”
    • Springfield: Dancy Terrace (Redell Street)
    • Springfield: Drew Mansion
    • Springfield: Drew Mansion and the Buried Head
    • Springfield: East Fifth Street House Fire
    • Springfield: Ellenelle / Springfield Usonian
    • Springfield: Florence Court Apartments
    • Springfield: Hubbard Street
    • Springfield: Jacobs Flats / Jax Brickhouse
    • Springfield: Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum / First Church of Christ, Scientist
    • Springfield: Klutho Apartments
    • Springfield: Klutho House
    • Springfield: Lewis Marker, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
    • Springfield: North Laura Street
    • Springfield: Ottis Toole House
      • Ottis Toole
        • Stalking Ottis Toole, chapter 53: Ottis Talks by Phone with Henry Lee Lucas
        • Stalking Ottis Toole, chapter 59: Buddy Terry, Coerced Confessions, Retractions
        • Stalking Ottis Toole, chapter 109: Framing Ottis Toole–Joe Matthews, Bad Police Work and Desperate Dishonesty
        • Stalking Ottis Toole, chapter 114: The True Story–Regina Hersey
    • Springfield: Shantytown, Sixth and Main
    • Springfield: Spence Auto Sales and Ottis Toole Death Car
    • Springfield: Subway Car No. 983
    • Springfield: Tunnels
    • St. Mary’s Liquors, Riverside Motel and the Boat Ramp Where They Pulled Nellie from the River
    • Sugar Hill, Blodgett Homes, Proton Therapy
    • White Harvest Farms
    • Winona Drive by Evergreen Cemetery
    • Yellow Bluff Fort, New Berlin Road: Earthworks and Hobo Jungles
  • South
    • Ann Adams, “Polio Patient,” Artist Who “Draws by Mouth,” South Jacksonville / San Marco
    • Art Jennette’s Place, Southern Charm
    • Avenues Mall (Unidentified Flying Objects, Reportedly Seen Heading Downtown)
    • Bayard Antique Village / Horne’s Beautyrest Cabins
    • Baymeadows / Bombay Meadows
    • Baymeadows 1
    • Baymeadows 2
    • Baymeadows 3
    • Baymeadows 4
    • Baymeadows Circle East at Baymeadows Circle West
    • Baymeadows: Dix Ellis Trail
    • Baymeadows: GMAC Mass Shooting Site
    • Beluthahatchee
    • Black Creek, Eagles’ Nest
    • Black South Jacksonville / Philips
    • Chopstick Charley’s and The Joe
    • Craig Creek at River Oaks Park and Oriental Gardens
    • Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
    • Emerson Kennels
    • Epping Forest / “The Mansion” / My Mother’s Illness
    • Fire Tower, Beach Boulevard, Windy Hill
    • Gator Lodge
    • Green Cove Springs: All Star Building Materials
    • Green Cove Springs: Arctic Discoverer
    • Green Cove Springs: Clay County Port
    • Green Cove Springs: Gustafson’s Farm
    • Green Cove Springs: Lee Field Hovercraft Ruins
    • Greenbriar Light Sought from Englewood
    • Greenfield Manor: 1960s Tract House, Witches in the Overstory
    • Hibiscus 303B
    • Hill Top, Black History on Forman Circle
    • I AM Sanctuary
    • Jerusalem
    • Mandarin: Hood Road House
    • Mandarin: Loretto Road Rectory
    • Mandarin: Orange Groves, Cypress Knees, Stephen for $450
    • Mandarin: St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Old St. Augustine Road
    • Mandarin: Two Young Men–1) Haley Road, Pickwick Park 2) Luria’s Fine Jewelry, San Jose Boulevard
    • Mandarin: Walden Wood, Cul-de-Sac on Wethersfield Place
    • Marjenhoff Park / Marjenhoff House
    • Mount Vernon Motor Lodge
    • Oaklawn Cemetery: Balis Tower
    • Orange Park / Lakewood: Monkey Farm / Yerkes Laboratories / The Granary
    • Oriental Gardens
    • Pine Forest
    • Sable Palms Apartments
    • Saint Nicholas and South Shores
    • Saint Nicholas: Curry-Thomas Hardware and Gun Shop
    • Saint Nicholas: St. Nick’s Lounge
    • San Marco: River Road
    • San Marco: San Marco Building / Towne Pump
    • San Marco: Swisher (Herbert) / Balis House
    • San Marco: Swisher House (John H.) / Villa Alexandria
    • Sans Souci: An Old Shed
    • Sentinel at Beach and Peach
    • Siesta Motor Inn, Philips Highway
    • Southside Boulevard near Deerwood
    • Spring Park Manor Unit 09
    • Villa San Jose: Off La Losa Drive (Overheard Dialogue)
    • Waterford-at-Deerwood Apartments, Southside Boulevard
    • Windsor Parke Professional Center, Sutton Park Drive South
  • East
    • Acosta (St. Elmo “Chic”) House
    • Al-Hajj Feriz Delkic Masjid and Islamic Community of Bosniaks
    • Arbor Pointe Unit 07: Joeandy Road North
    • Arlington and Lillian Roads (Jaywalking without I.D.)
    • Arlington Heights Elementary School
    • Arlington: Carriage House, Apartment 40
    • Arlington: Eagle Film City
    • Arlington: Expressway Mall (Where Mary Ran Away)
    • Arlington: Three Oaks Plaza, FBI Headquarters, Offshore Power Systems
    • Arlingwood Unit 10: Parker School Road
    • Atlantic Beach: Aquatic Gardens (The Flood & the Poet)
    • Atlantic Beach: Christopher / Bull / Hionides House
    • Atlantic Beach: Dunehouses and Pyramid
    • Atlantic Beach: Treehouse Over Spacecraft
    • Beach Boulevard and World Beach
    • Beach Octagon House and Sea Urchin Test
    • Beer Hole and Horse-Legged Fish
    • Chaseville “Colored Settlement” / Fort Caroline Club Estates
    • Clifton: Oak Lynde
    • Clifton: Strawberry Mills
    • Coquina Gates: 1, Wild Cherry
    • Coquina Gates: 2, Chinquapin
    • Coquina Gates: 3, Riots of the Fall and Nor’east
    • Coquina Gates: 4, Last Chance
    • Coquina Gates: 5, The Gates
    • Egrets Glade Unit 02: Tropic Egret Drive at Snowy Egret Drive
    • Empire Point: Marabanong
    • Empire Point: Perley Place and Wine Cellar
    • Empire Point: Suddath / Van Valkenburgh House
    • Floral Bluff
    • Floral Bluff Manor: Mrs. Martha’s Dildo Fence
    • Floral Bluff: Burdette / Clarke House
    • Florida State College at Jacksonville, South Campus: Outdoor Ecological Laboratory
    • Fort Caroline: Craig Morris at Grant Mound 8DU14
    • Fort Caroline: Ribault Monument
    • Fort Caroline: Spanish American War Battery
    • Fox Chase / Woodland Station
    • Geodesica
    • Gilmore: 1. Gilmore Cemetery, Train Station, and Railbed to Home
    • Gilmore: 2. Dead End at Grant Mound
    • Harbour Island / Rattlesnake Hill / Teri Youmans Grimm’s Florida
    • Hidden Hills Country Club Estates: Shoal Creek Lane North
    • Idlewild: Rain Cemetery, Witchistory
    • Jacksonville Beach: 13th Avenue South at South Ninth Street
    • Jacksonville Beach: American Legion Post 129
    • Jacksonville Beach: Beacon Motel Murder, Waterford Condominia
    • Jacksonville Beach: Bo’s Coral Reef
    • Jacksonville Beach: Casa Marina Hotel
    • Jacksonville Beach: Einstein-a-Go-Go
    • Jacksonville Beach: Ginger’s Place
    • Jacksonville Beach: McCormick Apartments (And McCormick Family Mythos)
    • Jacksonville Beach: New Trinity, Killing the Devil, and the Murder of Vera Gould
    • Jacksonville Beach: South Second Street, Apprehending and Seeing
    • Jacksonville Beach: South Second Street, Lonely Man
    • Jacksonville Beach: Tumulus in the Bean Field
    • Jacksonville University Apartment District: French Quarter Apartments / University Townhomes
    • Kernan Boulevard Magnolia / Anhedonia
    • Kernan Boulevard: “The District” (Privatized Dorms)
    • Keystone Bluff: Spite Fence, Wooden Bowling Alley, Octagon Room
    • Killarney Drive between Blarney Stone Court and Leprechaun Court, behind the Sign with the Shamrock that Welcomes You to Killarney Shores
    • Kona Skatepark
    • Lake Lucina: Suicidal Clown House
    • Line between the Beach and the Ocean
    • Mayport Lifeguard Station, Hannah Park
    • Mayport: Old St. Johns Lighthouse
    • Mayport: Shrimp Boat through the Jetties
    • Mayport: Singleton’s Seafood Shack
    • Merrill Hills: Overstory in the Forested Seep, 25 Million Years
    • Neptune Beach: Lemon Street
    • Neptune Beach: Mysterious House
    • Neptune Beach: Pete’s Bar
    • Oakhaven: Halliday Lane and Campbell Avenue Chiasmus (Morning Glories)
    • Oakhaven: Harbor Point House
    • Oakhaven: Heston House
    • Oakhaven: Moyer House
    • Outlaw Motorcycle Club, Car Bomb, Southside Estates
    • Ponte Vedra Beach: Sawgrass Marriott Hotel
    • Ponte Vedra Beach: Tournament Players Championship, Post-Apocalyptic Parking Lot
    • Queen’s Harbour Yacht and Country Club: Admiral’s Bend Drive
    • Regency: Humphreys Gold Mine Ghost Town
    • Saint John the Divine Greek Orthodox Church
    • Silversmith Creek: Swamp Rose
    • Sin City Apartments (Fox Meadows / Rivermont / Golden Shores)
    • Sin City Elementary
    • Sin City Swan Song
    • Spring Glen: The Sublime in the Thrashing Trees
    • Thunderbird Motor Hotel
    • UNF Drive
    • University of North Florida: Boathouse, Blueberry Trail, Library of Babel, and Her Whole Life in Front of Her
    • University of North Florida: Organic Garden
    • Willie Browne Trail, Shell Peninsula, Dredge Spoil Island
    • Willie Browne’s Cabin
    • Woodmere
  • West
    • Armstrong Farm (Eat Your Yard, Jax)
    • Baldwin: Blackbottom
    • Baldwin: Everybody’s Restaurant
    • Battalion Airsoft Arena
    • Beaver Street Baptist Church / Jacksonville Baptist Temple / Cathedral of Faith (Woodstock Park)
    • Blanding Boulevard Baptist Church: The Resurrection
    • Branan Field Octagon and Oakleaf
    • Chair Tree and the Pretty Monster: Where It Is
    • Chamblin Bookmine, Part One of Seven
    • Collins Road Christian Academy, at Collins Road Baptist Church
    • Confederate Crossing: Grayson Court Diluted Fascism
    • Cosmic Church of Truth
    • Cracker Swamp and Whitehouse
    • Eco Relics (North Riverside or Mixon Town)
    • Far West Woods: Christmas Peanuts
    • Farris and Company Slaughterhouse
    • Fireside Place: Patch of Woods that No Longer Exists
    • Florida State College at Jacksonville / Florida Junior College, Cumberland Campus
    • Gravely Hill Plantation and Graveyard
    • Greybeard’s Tavern (Woodstock)
    • Hammond Boulevard Exit & the “Perfect Pedophile Paradise”
    • Hart Haven: Leprosy and Wild Bill
    • Highway 90 West: Old Spanish Trail Way Station
    • Honeymoon / Rural Home
    • Hope for Life Baptist Church
    • Island Bar
    • Jacksonville Heights: Connie Jean Mobile Home Park
    • Jacksonville Velodrome
    • Jefferson Davis Junior High / Middle School
    • Jug (Lynyrd Skynyrd “Cuttin’ the Rug”)
    • Kayaking the Ortega River through the Republic of East Florida toward Confederate Point
    • King’s Road and Timucuan Trail: Salvage Yard and Deer Head
    • Lackawanna Buddhist Bungalow
    • Lackawanna Elementary School
    • Lackawanna: DJ’s Record Store
    • Lackawanna: Trinity Baptist Church
    • Lake Shore: The Great Camphor on Sunderland Road
    • Lakeshore Gateway Arches and the Swastika
    • Lord Ranch, Old Kings Road
    • Marietta: Doublewide Trailer, Thomas Jefferson Elementary, National Hotline for the NAAWP
    • Marietta: Gray’s Grave
    • Marietta: The Devil in the Christian School
    • Mixon Studios
    • Murray Hill Heights: KKK Bombing Site: Donal Godfrey’s House
    • Murray Hill Heights: Summers’ Day (Terrianne Summers / Day Avenue)
    • Murray Hill Theater
    • Murray Hill: Community Loaves / Rosenberger House
    • Murray Hill: Dreamette / Creamette
    • Murray Hill: Edgewood Coin Shop
    • Murray Hill: The A Tavern
    • Museum of Southern History
    • My Father’s Grave
    • Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Ghost Base
    • Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Ghost Signs and Poison
    • Normandy Motel
    • Normandy Village: Dogs with Guns
    • Oak Hill Unit 11
    • Ortega Baptist Church, Roosevelt Boulevard, Ortega: Two Signs
    • Ortega Yacht Club Condominiums (High above Chamblin Bookmine)
    • Ottis Toole’s Mother’s House (Until He Burnt It Down)
    • Patrick Allen Herald’s Old Stomping Grounds
    • Patriot Mania—the American Flag Aisle
    • Paxon Lounge
    • Pickettville
    • Pickettville: Harrison Pickett House
    • Playtime Drive-In Movie Theater and Christ Church Anglican
    • Proxima Road: My Father Is Gone
    • Roosevelt Mall, Roosevelt Boulevard 1
    • Roosevelt Mall, Roosevelt Boulevard 2
    • Sanctuary at Mt. Calvary / Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church (Grant Park)
    • Shep’s Discount and Salvage
    • Shep’s Discount and Salvage, Part Two: The Iron Lung
    • Small House with the City Inside
    • Small Red Shack at the City Limit Sign, U.S. 301
    • Sprint Towing Storage Yard
    • St. Gabriel Ethiopian Orthodox Church: Timkat, Epiphany
    • Transylvania
    • Wesconnett, Dead End Transylvania
    • Wesconnett: Pucketts and Gunnings
    • Wesconnett: Turknett / Parnell House
    • Westbrook Park
    • Westside Adolescence (Early 1990s)
    • Westside: Apartment Complex, 103rd Street
    • Westside: Drury Cat Farm
    • Westside: Proxima Road: Angel Dog & Soupbone Sky
    • Westside: Royal Court
    • Westside: Scuppernongs and Quonset Hut
    • Yukon: Ghost ZIP Code
  • West (Riverside Avondale)
    • Aeolian Harp Street
    • Anna Fletcher’s Final Home
    • Annie Lytle Public School Number Four, Gilmore Street
    • Annie Lytle Public School Number Four, Gilmore Street, Addendum: “Tim Gilmore is Still Here”
    • Beerbower House
    • Bell Bell
    • Big Flood on Little Fishweir Creek
    • Blackburn House
    • Bold City Brewery and Intuition Ale Works: Growlers of Pale Ale in Old Warehouses by the Railroad Tracks, Feedback Loop Tomb, Shadows and Patterns down King Street and into North Riverside
    • Chimney Swifts at Riverside Christian Church
    • Cool Moose, Park and King
    • CoRK Arts District: Crystal Floyd’s Cabinet of Curiosities
    • CoRK Arts District: Dolf James’s Studio
    • CoRK Arts District: Evervess Art Studio
    • CoRK Arts District: MetaCusp
    • CoRK Arts District: Olivier Flaire’s Studio
    • CoRK Arts District: Open Studios
    • Cumberland Campus, Florida Junior College / Kent Campus, Florida State College at Jacksonville
    • Edge City
    • End of the Streetcar Line, Patterns in the Brick Pavement, Aberdeen Street
    • Ernest Street to Willow Branch Park (Simultagnosia)
    • Fire Department Drill Tower
    • Fishweir Creek and Leah Mary Cox
    • Five Points Theatre / Riverside Theater (Sun-Ray Cinema)
    • Five Points: Fans & Stoves
    • Five Points: Peterson’s Five and Dime Building
    • Five Points: Post and Goodwin Streets
    • Five Points: Rain Dogs–Barstool for F. Kyle Marshall, aka DJ Chef Rocc
    • Frank G. Slaughter, Medical Thrillers, and the Cleary-Dickert House
    • Friday Musicale
    • Frogmore
    • Garden of Colors / Andy Ward King
    • Jacksonville Woman’s Club
    • JASMYN (Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network) House
    • JaxbyJax Signs on Telephone Poles (An Homage to Paul Bremer and Dennis Steele)
    • Lancaster Terrace
    • Leon Cheek Castle
    • Martha Washington Hotel
    • Memorial Park Drum Circle
    • Memorial Park, Ouija Board
    • Native Park
    • Noli Novak’s Riverside Studio
    • Orange-State-Oil-Company-European-Street-Café, Park and King
    • Park Lane Building
    • Park Street Coin Laundry
    • Park View Court, Herschel Street
    • Purple Petunia Filling Station and Antique Bottle Collection
    • Richmond Street to the River
    • River House / Riverside House / Rochester House-part-II
    • River House / Riverside House / Rochester House: Part I
    • Riverdale Inn / Brazil(e) House, “Sugar Castle” / Kelly House
    • Riverside Avenue and Heather M. Peters
    • Riverside Park Camellia Garden
    • rXr at Willow Branch and College, Death of a Crustpunk
    • Spaz House
    • St. Johns Flower Market
    • St. Vincent’s Hospital
    • Trump Campaign Office
    • Trump Campaign Office Update #1
    • Trump Campaign Office Update #2
    • Trump Campaign Office Update #3
    • Trump Campaign Office Update #4: The End
    • Trump Campaign Office Update #5: The End Again (or, The Real End)
    • Wayne Wood / Lucius Smith House
    • Wayne Wood’s Tipi
    • Wildling Arboretum
    • Willowbranch Park and Library and Gay Pride
  • All Over Town
    • 874.3 Square Mile Tent
    • Architectural Milk Houses
    • Cavafy’s City
    • Charles Dickens for Mayor
    • Confederate Flag Burnings (and the Rebellions of my Youth)
    • Dillon Somewhere
    • Epitaph
    • Free Bird & Midnight Rider, Southern Rock in Jax
    • Georgia Savory and Air Potato, Cheryl after John Muir
    • Ginsberg Somewhere in Some Slum
    • J.B. Stoner and the KKK
    • Jax Klux Klan Politix
    • JaxPsychoGeo
    • Ku Klux Klan in Jacksonville
    • Linemen After the Hurricane
    • Lovett’s Grocery / Winn-Lovett’s / Winn-Dixie & My Grandfather
    • Military Jacksonville in 800 Words
    • Murder in Jacksonville
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St. Johns Flower Market’s Long Strange Trip

Posted on April 16, 2019 | Leave a comment

From Moonies to “flower pimps” to midcentury modern architecture, Click here for the strange and wondrous story of St. Johns Flower Market.

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