'While his career was in optometry, Wood has spent decades looking at Jacksonville’s architecture,| said Mark Woods, 'researching, writing and thinking about what used to be, what remains and what could be.'
From there, we headed through Springfield, checking out the bungalows built in the early 1900s; making a detour to a house on 9th Street that architect Henry Klutho built for himself in 1909; walking through Klutho Park; passing through what was then known as Confederate Park; noting the Klutho building that once was home to the Claude Nolan Cadillac dealership; meandering by some of the old buildings and new ones in the heart of downtown; eventually reaching the foot of one of the city’s most...
That church — notable not only for its grand exterior and sanctuary, but for its 100-year-old swimming pool — was in the first book and is still standing on Stockton Street, not far from the 1913 Riverside home where Wood lives. He says that to him, these smaller buildings are as important as the grand historic ones that we often think of when talking about preservation.
“It’s just beautiful,” he said. “And it reflects the craftsmanship of the time. So that building is in the new book.”One structure we passed on our walk that remains standing — and because of that also remains the center of much controversy: the Women of the Confederacy monument. He says the part of the latest book that he’s proudest about involves more than 75 African-American sites that weren’t in the previous editions. They include the house where Zora Neale Hurston lived and others that, while maybe not architectural specimens are culturally significant.Don’t get him started on the Duval County Courthouse or the exterior of the Main Library .
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