Jacksonville's Architectural Heritage - Book Info
Jacksonville Architectural Heritage



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OLD JACKSONVILLE WOMAN'S CLUB
16 EAST DUVAL STREET
DATE: 1903
ARCHITECTS: McClure & Holmes
BUILDER: C. E. Boling 

The Jacksonville Woman's Club was founded in 1897, but it was not until 1902 that the group was able to purchase this site on which to build a permanent clubhouse.  Erected in 1903, the clubhouse was built of Florida brick with a stucco finished front and originally had a tile roof.  The second-story window configuration and broad overhanging roof show the influence of the Prairie style of architecture, its earliest appearance in Jacksonville.  The flared hips of the main roofline and of the two dormers suggest an Oriental flavor.  This building served as the Woman's Club until 1927, when a new structure was erected in Riverside  (RA-100). The facade is nicely proportioned, and it remains, along with the Seminole Club, as one of the early downtown social/civic clubs built after the 1901 Fire.

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