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Jacksonville by Neighborhood => Urban Neighborhoods => Springfield => Topic started by: Southbanker on July 26, 2009, 12:12:45 AM

Title: Building at the corner of 6th and Walnut
Post by: Southbanker on July 26, 2009, 12:12:45 AM
Does anybody know what the building at the corner of 6th and Walnut across from 3 Layers used to be?  For that matter, I am also curious what the 3 Layers building used to be back in SPR's glory days.

Thanks
Title: Re: Building at the corner of 6th and Walnut
Post by: aubureck on July 31, 2009, 12:35:26 PM
What is the address?
Title: Re: Building at the corner of 6th and Walnut
Post by: Sigma on July 31, 2009, 12:53:32 PM
Quote from: Southbanker on July 26, 2009, 12:12:45 AM
Does anybody know what the building at the corner of 6th and Walnut across from 3 Layers used to be?  For that matter, I am also curious what the 3 Layers building used to be back in SPR's glory days.

Thanks

At one time, the building where Three Layers is located was a dry cleaner I have been told.  More recently, the building was a church up until 2003, when it was sold to some investors who sold it to the current owners.

You should have seen it as a church.  More like a cave.  All the windows were boarded up and a  hallway went around the inside perimeter of the building with small rooms.  The congregation was in the center. Dark red carpet, dark paneling.  Musty and spooky.

Amazing the transformation.  I wished it could've been videoed for a tv show or something.
Title: Re: Building at the corner of 6th and Walnut
Post by: Deuce on July 31, 2009, 03:07:26 PM
The way you describe in Sigma it sounds more like a cult HQ than a church.
Title: Re: Building at the corner of 6th and Walnut
Post by: Sigma on August 01, 2009, 10:37:20 AM
 :D

It was a church, nice preacher who lived between 6th and 7th on Walnut.  He also owned the building on the SW corner of 7th and Walnut which I heard was recently sold again.

The church was boarded up due to being in a bad neighborhood for a long time.  Not very many members and they scraped by financially.  But a cult, hardly.  Methodist from what I remember.