History

The historic Bowden house at 3323 Loretto Road has for years stood as one of the few remnants of Mandarin’s...

By now, many of us are familiar with how the historic Black neighborhood of LaVilla was torn apart – literally,...

When North Florida Land Trust moved into its new office building at 843 W. Monroe Street in LaVilla, it marked...

Following the Civil War, newly free Black men and women joined the ranks of paid workers throughout the country. But...

The old Fire Station No. 5 building was demolished over the weekend after the city was unable to find a...

For just under a hundred years, the former Fire Station No. 5 building served the Riverside and Brooklyn neighborhoods as...

Comic actor Oliver Hardy starred in hundreds of silent films, both by himself and as half of the iconic Laurel...

Before buses, and long before the Skyway, streetcars were the heart of public transit in Jacksonville’s urban core. The very...

In the architecturally decadent 1960s, the Universal Marion building at 21 W. Church Street was built to be a world-class...

Thousands of Jacksonville residents gathered along the Northbank Riverwalk on a warm, sunny day in June of 1987 to celebrate...