Prairie School Architecture in Jacksonville

[Adam White]

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

[thelakelander]

^Yeah, another 20 or 30 years from now, we'll be saying the same thing about losing all this mid-century architecture.

[Adam White]

^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.

[thelakelander]

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.

[MusicMan]

Klutho, Jacksonville's most celebrated and demolished architect!

Are there any pictures of the inside of his home on West 9th Street out there?

[Adam White]

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...

[MusicMan]

I was thinking more about the architectural details....

[Adam White]

I was thinking more about the architectural details....

I was joking. Though I would expect the furniture to actually have been pretty great.

[Wacca Pilatka]

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.