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As the First Baptist Church pushes to demolish another piece of Downtown Jacksonville's dwindling historic building fabric, here's a look at what the church has already destroyed over the years.
Read More:https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/first-baptist-churchs-historic-demolition-derby/
Wow! That's kind of disturbing.
When an individual building is demolished, it can be hard in the short term to see the dramatic impact the pattern can have over a substained period of time. Yet, the end result is several blocks of lost life, history, culture, sense of place, vitality and economic activity.
I always admired some of those buildings that had been destroyed and it just never occurred to me that FBC was a common thread in their demolition. Eye-opening.
Sad to see such amazing architectural history razed. :(