The TU posted a picture of the old Germania Club on Facebook today and I decided to look it up online - I wanted to know where it was and when (and why it was demolished). Anyway, I came across this thoroughly depressing page which lists many of the Prairie School buildings demolished in Jacksonville over the years. The Criminal Court Building seems a particularly egregious loss to me.
I'd seen stuff about the amount of Prairie School architecture in Jax, but had forgotten all about it.
http://www.prairieschooltraveler.com/html/fl/lost/Lost-Treasures.html
^Yeah, another 20 or 30 years from now, we'll be saying the same thing about losing all this mid-century architecture.
Quote from: thelakelander on April 06, 2019, 08:13:02 PM
^Yeah, another 20 or 30 years from now, we'll be saying the same thing about losing all this mid-century architecture.
The annex or whatever was a real loss, IMO. As will be the TU building. Thank god they saved the library.
Yes, in the last year, we've lost the annex and greyhound and the TU and JEA Tower have one foot on the ground and another on a banana peel.
Klutho, Jacksonville's most celebrated and demolished architect!
Are there any pictures of the inside of his home on West 9th Street out there?
Quote from: MusicMan on April 07, 2019, 01:53:47 PM
Klutho, Jacksonville's most celebrated and demolished architect!
Are there any pictures of the inside of his home on West 9th Street out there?
Strangely, it was full of flat-pack IKEA furniture. Really disappointing...
I was thinking more about the architectural details....
Quote from: MusicMan on April 08, 2019, 04:11:40 PM
I was thinking more about the architectural details....
I was joking. Though I would expect the furniture to actually have been pretty great.
There are some pics inside the house in Jacksonville's Architectural Heritage and in Wayne Wood's book on the architecture of Klutho. If I recall correctly in my late tax season haze, most of Klutho's furniture in the house was Stickley to complement the prairie style of the house.