The Seminole Club --- Another Shorpy classic photo

[Jaxson]

I am glad to see that the Shorpy Historic Photo Archive continues to post more great pictures of Jacksonville and other Florida places of interest. 

The latest photo from our neck of the woods?  The Seminole Club on Hogan Street.  Check it out!   

http://www.shorpy.com/node/9668

[Singejoufflue]

I go by that building every day on the Skyway and am anxious to see it brought back to life!  How grand it would be to live in a house like that....

[Ernest Street]

I love how all the Mystery wires go down and into the building above windows or anywhere else...before Jacksonville started making safety laws, or before electrical codes. (You have to click on the larger pic.)
BTW..that is a sweet ride parked out front..convertible Deluxe!!
And lastly..those are streetcar tracks out front no?

[Dog Walker]

That photo is as good an argument for tearing down the Skyway as their is.  You can't even SEE the buildings along the street with that concrete monstrosity in the way.

Nature intended that streetcars be put on the streets.

[Captain Zissou]

What a great building.  That could house a truly great venue and help to anchor that end of Hemming.  Half a block from the skyway, off street parking, the borrowed landscape of Hemming Plaza, and great history??  It's MINE!

[fieldafm]

Sterlings had thought about opening up a 2nd location serving the luncthime crowd at the Seminole Club a few years ago.

The Daily Record has a good article from a few months back with some of the history of the Seminole Club and some pictures from the inside.

The property is listed with CB Richard Ellis at 1.2mm, something like $55-sq ft.  Quite a bit of work would be needed, but I understand the building could be registered on the National Register of Historic Buildings and thereby eligible for certain grants(including the city's historic building fund, depending on what the potential Laura Trio's share of that will be, which IMO is much more important as a cornerstone project DT than Seminole would be).  The building itself does have an indoor bball/tennis court, which is pretty cool.  The third floor used to be a bordello of sorts for affluent private businessmen.

[billy]

didn't they film part of the movie about the 2000 election recount inside?