Jacksonville's Skyscrapers: Photo Essay by Ken Daga
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How well do you know downtown Jacksonville? This photo essay by Ken Daga may put your knowledge to a challenge.
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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2013-may-jacksonvilles-skyscrapers-photo-essay-by-ken-daga
1 Jacksonville Center
2 BB&T Bank Building
3 JEA Tower
4 One of the Cathedral Residencies Towers *
5 EverBank Center
6 11 East
7 Greenleaf & Crosby? I'm not sure.*
8 I dunno, it looks familiar.*
9 Wells Fargo Center
* = incomplete answer.
I'll let someone clean up my scraps.
Is 8 the Life of the South building?
And is 7 the Professional Building on Adams?
awesome!
Quote from: Wacca Pilatka on May 16, 2013, 08:40:35 AM
And is 7 the Professional Building on Adams?
Close, in that they are both downtown and were constructed during the same decade....
8 is the old Life of the South Building.
Is 7 the Hildebrandt building, the former EverBank HQ?
This is harder than I thought it would be. I blanked on #4 altogether. You have a better eye than I do, I-10.
#4 is Cathedral Townhouse, I shamefully had to use emporis on that one. Cathedral Townhouse looks very similar to Cathedral Towers from that pic.
great images!
This is a really cool series.
Number 7 is 169 Julia Street. It sits on the Southwest corner of Julia and Adams. The first floor is trimmed in a dark granite. The corners, on either side of the brick (shown), of the upper floors appear to be a light stone. Old eyes can't see that high. The two window shakers are on the east elevation. It only has six stories. Hardly a sky scraper by todays standards. I don't know the name of the building.
The official name is the Hildebrandt Building.
(http://www.floridamemory.com/fpc/reference/rc17928.jpg)
State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/39190
^^^Nice building, although it isn't technically a 'skyscraper'.
Is #6 what used to be the American Heritage Life Building? I think the three initial blocks on the roof no longer say AHL.
^^^Yes. It was first known as the Lynch Building, and now it's 11 East Forsyth.
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynch_Building