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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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The Hidden House, by Ted Pappas, a Mediterranean Revival Revival

Posted on October 21, 2022 | 1 comment

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This house hidden behind a house on the river, is both classical and contemporary. Ted Pappas designed it when he was restoring the Mediterranean Revival mansion called Epping Forest. Indeed, you could call this house Mediterranean Revival Revival. Its current occupant must go unnamed. He does not speak into his shoe, though he did once have a STU-III.

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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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Because of Poor Planning, Parking Storage is Hollowing Out Downtown Jax

Posted on July 3, 2022 | Leave a comment

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Call them “parking craters” or “dead zones” or osteoporosis. Mammoth parking garages are eating Downtown alive. When the flâneuX sees only parking storage on either side, they guess Downtown is the “parking district.” Jane Jacobs titled a famous essay “Downtown is for People.” Jax authorities sometimes seem to think otherwise.

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This is Where the First House Stood

Posted on July 1, 2022 | Leave a comment

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Here, Lewis Zachariah and Maria Hogans built the first house. It preceded the city (if you could call it that) of Jacksonville by six years. Oddly, the Spanish had built houses here before the “first house” was built. When hotels replaced it, the Old Hogans Well remained. The city burnt and rebuilt and burnt and rebuilt. Today, the concrete discus atop the city looks like a UFO landing pad.

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Walking with Ted Pappas through the Journey’s End House

Posted on December 19, 2021 | Leave a comment

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To walk with architect Ted Pappas and his son Mark through one of his favorite residential designs is a momentous experience. It recalls Ted’s earlier Resurrection Catholic Church, but also Frank Lloyd Wright. It moves. It’s shaped like a compass in motion. And it looks through a two story prow window out onto the St. Johns River.

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The Last Remaining Doro Artwork in Jax

Posted on July 9, 2021 | Leave a comment

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Months ago, the historic Doro Fixture Co. Building in Downtown Jax was demolished. It’s a shame. George Doro’s sole lasting architectural masterpiece, however, might just be the icon screen he designed and built for St. John the Divine Greek Orthodox Church. His signature was an unblinking eye. His iconostasis just moved to its third location and now has a chapel all its own. Make your pilgrimage to Doro’s great artwork.

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The Dramatic Story of the Pappas Building

Posted on May 29, 2021 | Leave a comment

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It was architect Ted Pappas’s artistic self-portrait. It’s when the State of Florida decided people, and neighborhoods, mattered less than cars and through-traffic. It’s also a mystery. Why Pappas salvaged the stones and where he placed them. What else do you do when your city shoots itself through the art you bequeathed it? I’ll be damned if there’s not hope still.

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New Story: Hogan’s Creek Tower

Posted on May 23, 2021 | Leave a comment

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Who were they, these women in these earliest photographs? Who called this tower their “poor man’s penthouse”? Opened in 1976, Hogan’s Creek Tower, designed by architect Ted Pappas, is one of Jacksonville’s best examples of Brutalism. Like any community, it has its stories. Like the resident who wandered away and spent his 100th Christmas meandering for 17 hours across the city.

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New Story: Epping Forest

Posted on April 15, 2021 | 1 comment

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Epping Forest is the grandest historic estate in Jacksonville. Well known, the summits of world leaders here. Well known, its original owner’s personal manipulation of banking in the Great Depression. Why, however, did Alfred Dent believe his grandmother, Jessie Ball duPont, and her brother, Edward Ball, had murdered his grandfather, Alfred duPont? Also, what’s up with the pelicans and squirrels and vampire faces?

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Tag Archives: Ted Pappas

Senator John Mathews and the Bridge to Nowhere

The Hidden House, by Ted Pappas, a Mediterranean Revival Revival

Inside the Enigmatic Arlington Federal Savings and Loan

Because of Poor Planning, Parking Storage is Hollowing Out Downtown Jax

This is Where the First House Stood

Walking with Ted Pappas through the Journey’s End House

The Last Remaining Doro Artwork in Jax

The Dramatic Story of the Pappas Building

New Story: Hogan’s Creek Tower

New Story: Epping Forest

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