These two commercial buildings are complementary in scale and design, forming a nice grouping.  Marsh & Saxelbye were the architects for both, which are similar to several others they designed in the mid-1920's  (see D-59 and D-60).  The facades are enriched by Mediterranean Revival ornamentation, including cast-stone details.  The building at 37-41 West Monroe   (above left), which features a pair of dolphins in the arch over the main entrance, was constructed for the South Atlantic Investment Corporation.  (The president of this company was Thomas B. Hamby, for whom Marsh & Saxelbye had completed another design  [D-60] only a few months earlier.)  The neighboring brick building at 29-33 West Monroe  (above right) was constructed at a cost of $25,000 for the Buckman and Ulmer Real Estate Co.
[These two buildings were demolished by the City of Jacksonville to build the new Downtown Public Library].