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Robert Broward’s Favorite Design: The Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

Posted on March 3, 2023 | Leave a comment

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Recuperating from a nearly fatal car crash, architect Robert Broward drew the first sketches of his design for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville in his hospital bed. Near the end of his life, he said it was his favorite design.

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The Evolution of Broward’s Butterfly House

Posted on February 3, 2023 | 1 comment

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When Robert Broward designed his famous Mid-Century Modern “Butterfly House” in 1957, he used rainwater and sunlight as materials. In the early ’60s, Fred Nachman added pecky cypress and clad the house in Gothic iron. When Kathryn Stater purchased it in 2016, it was on the verge of demolition. Now it’s more itself than it’s ever been.

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Senator John Mathews and the Bridge to Nowhere

Posted on January 19, 2023 | Leave a comment

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When the Mathews Bridge was new, it was “the Bridge to Nowhere,” but it heralded the growth of Arlington east of the river and Downtown Jax. The city painted it “garnet” to celebrate its United States Football League team in 1984. It was named for the Florida senator best known for his proposed legislation to limit black voting rights. Opposing those bills got Harry T. Moore and his wife killed on their 25th anniversary.

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Inside the Enigmatic Arlington Federal Savings and Loan

Posted on October 7, 2022 | Leave a comment

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Here’s a look inside the abandoned Arlington Federal. Its architect remained elusive. The lobby stands open to the elements. A butterfly sub-ceiling hangs over the tellers’ desks. Steel vaults stand open. In its earliest years, even its administrators robbed it. Only now does it emerge that Miami’s Edwin T. Reeder was the architect. Now the bulldozers are ready.

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Resuscitating Klutho’s Last Downtown Design, the Florida Baptist Convention Building

Posted on November 26, 2021 | Leave a comment

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For 40 years, the Florida Baptist Convention Building has stood abandoned. Now architect Brooke Robbins is bringing the old building, the last downtown design by architect Henry John Klutho, back to life. Recently I wandered with Brooke up the stone stairwell, through the building’s history, to its rooftop.

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New Story: Doty Apartments/Red Cannon’s Barbershop/Ted Pappas Associates

Posted on April 5, 2021 | Leave a comment

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Here was Red Cannon’s political hq. Here, that old jazz musician once lived. Here, indictments against city officials arrived. Here, the young architect Ted Pappas opened his first office. In the Doty Apartment Building were cigar packers and tax collectors, attorneys and physicians. It’s history is as full and diverse as that of a city.

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New Story: Architect Ted Pappas’s Design for St. John the Divine Greek Orthodox Church

Posted on December 5, 2020 | Leave a comment

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The first solo design for architect Ted Pappas, son of Greek immigrants, was the new home of the city’s Greek Orthodox church. The history of St. John the Divine reflects the history of the Greek community in Jacksonville. The icon screen, built by George Doro a century ago, moved to Pappas’s postmodern design from the original church, a historic landmark demolished for a parking lot. Now, a new congregation has saved this sanctuary for another generation.

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Springfield’s Florence Court Apartments

Posted on June 26, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Cyara likes to imagine herself “Queen Florence.” More than a century before, the builder of the Florence Court named these apartments for his wife. On the sidewalk, you’d buy linen spats and a ham and beef tongue sandwich. So why was the architect’s name an open secret for 50 years? Mushrooms grow downward from ceilings. This building’s declined almost all its life. Who’s ready to step forward and save it?

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Ellenelle: An Architectural Tribute and Shrine to a Great Writer

Posted on January 15, 2020 | Leave a comment

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The house called Ellenelle is a tribute to the architecture of Henry John Klutho. It’s also a sacred space, a private literary and family temple. Ed had hoped that perhaps in his aunt’s last years, the great writer might come to live here. The bedroom to the side of the library is hers, even if she never inhabited it.

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The Life and Multiple Deaths of the Drew Building

Posted on November 25, 2019 | Leave a comment

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The story of the building at 45 West Bay Street concerns a bear, Jacksonville’s first bookstore, Ottis Toole, the tragic deaths of construction workers, multiple demolition plans, the ghost of a third floor and the love of an architect who refused to let this building die. Now Urban Grind Coffee, Folio Weekly and other businesses call the Drew Building home. Click below for the story.

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Tag Archives: Robert Broward

Robert Broward’s Favorite Design: The Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

The Evolution of Broward’s Butterfly House

Senator John Mathews and the Bridge to Nowhere

Inside the Enigmatic Arlington Federal Savings and Loan

Resuscitating Klutho’s Last Downtown Design, the Florida Baptist Convention Building

New Story: Doty Apartments/Red Cannon’s Barbershop/Ted Pappas Associates

New Story: Architect Ted Pappas’s Design for St. John the Divine Greek Orthodox Church

Ellenelle: An Architectural Tribute and Shrine to a Great Writer

The Life and Multiple Deaths of the Drew Building

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