Hello Metrojacksonville !!!! =)

[Timkin]

  Hi Folks...


I finally got around to joining this forum.  Alot of you probably know me from Urban or Metjax. Recently I joined Jaxoutloud, and now im here as well


And as most of you probably know , Ive spent off and on the last couple of years trying to bring attention to , and hopefully help to bring a solution to saving Public School Number Four, known to all as Annie Lytle Elementary School. Most of us are familiar with this long-time fixture in the Brooklyn area.

On Jaxoutloud, In the multimedia area, is a tour I took of PS 4 in January 2006 and a short news story on the School that aired the same month and year on Channel 4, where both sides were presented.

Im a common person , live a fairly simple life and am looking for only one thing from this; The School to remain there and be restored and adapted to some practical use.  For a couple of decades the proposal to develop it in to Condos has been the idea, of late, possibly demolished and a retirement facility placed on the site.  It is my hope that whatever lies ahead for PS 4  will not involve removal of this Stately and very beautiful Neoclassic Structure.

  It is a privledge to be a part of this and the other Jacksonville sites.  Please feel free to communicate to me.


  TIMKIN =)

[Ocklawaha]

ROll up those sleves Timkin, we all got work to do. Glad to have you aboard our streetcar...

We'll try and save the school and make it part of the City again.

WELCOME FRIEND!

Ocklawaha

[Coolyfett]

  Hi Folks...


I finally got around to joining this forum.  Alot of you probably know me from Urban or Metjax. Recently I joined Jaxoutloud, and now im here as well


And as most of you probably know , Ive spent off and on the last couple of years trying to bring attention to , and hopefully help to bring a solution to saving Public School Number Four, known to all as Annie Lytle Elementary School. Most of us are familiar with this long-time fixture in the Brooklyn area.

On Jaxoutloud, In the multimedia area, is a tour I took of PS 4 in January 2006 and a short news story on the School that aired the same month and year on Channel 4, where both sides were presented.

Im a common person , live a fairly simple life and am looking for only one thing from this; The School to remain there and be restored and adapted to some practical use.  For a couple of decades the proposal to develop it in to Condos has been the idea, of late, possibly demolished and a retirement facility placed on the site.  It is my hope that whatever lies ahead for PS 4  will not involve removal of this Stately and very beautiful Neoclassic Structure.

  It is a privledge to be a part of this and the other Jacksonville sites.  Please feel free to communicate to me.


  TIMKIN =)

Timkin....Im interested in the stories behind this place dude. Does anybody know the REAL truth??

[Timkin]

   I cannot speak to any event , haunting , sighting of spirits or anything unusual occuring in School Four. There are no records of any kind of any deaths, murders, or any related activity taking place there.

   I have been in the School  on two occasions .. in 06 and appx 20 years ago when it was standing wide open. I noted nothing like that.  I personally belive there is no truth to the allegation that the school is haunted. I have footage from January 06 that clearly shows grafitti all over the place inside the school and the neglect of the structure, overgrowth all over it , gives it a depressing and definitely haunted feel on the inside.

   I belive the truth of the matter is , School Four served its purpose as a School House from 1917 (Replacing a wooden Schoolhouse on the same site) to around 1960 When the interstate system cut through the front of the property. That and that alone was the death of it as a School . I dont belive Crazy Janitors or Teachers or Children were killed. I do not know for certain but have heard there was a possible boiler room explosion and that the building has had a fire in the first story front entrance. Aside from those, years of vandalism and neglect.  That is the Ghost and the Haunting of School Four.  I firmly belive that in my heart.

   Its days as a School are over ... That is a definite.  But an adaptive reuse?  Definitely has possibilities. Should it be saved??   POSITIVELY!

[jbm32206]

Welcome to metrojacksonville, Timkin. I know that you'll find many of those who will support your efforts to save school # 4...which is indeed, a building worth saving!

[Timkin]

Anyone who is more computer-savvy than I may at anytime post the Multimedia content on the Jaxoutloud site here, whereever in an Annie Lytle Thread, they wish. Im just not sure of how to do it . =)

[Timkin]

For the past few weeks , I have began working on the right of ways , cleaning debris , trimming and pruning what I could reach on the right of way property surrounding PS 4 .  Im going this weekend to mow ..so far im only allowed to work outside but for now, Im happy with just doing that. My thought is to work from the outside , inward to reduce the blighted ,neglected look of this property, and if  allowed , an extensive cleanup inside the school.