GREAT compilation, Lakelander! I hope it's okay for me to revive a thread this old. I'm de-lurking and was so happy to see a thread capture Jacksonville this well with photos from all of its many corners. It makes me extremely homesick.
Luckily, I am planning to move back to Jacksonville some time next year, and I'm also going to spend a big chunk of my summer down there beginning in 2 weeks. I really like the progress J'ville's making on many fronts and the potential it still has, and I think I've decided I'd rather be a part of its renaissance than live somewhere that is 'better off' in a matter of speaking. I feel like my field of interests (historic preservation and community development) can really be applied there, and I'd also like to fight the trend of J'ville hemorrhaging its talented and creative youth.
BTW, I've taken a recent interest in Eastside and Phoenix, but I'm not great at recognizing them, as I'm not half as familiar with that part of J'ville as other areas. I was wondering if any of your photos in this thread are from those two neighborhoods?
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Originally Posted by Centropolis
This is totally strange. Apartment buildings straight out of Kansas City with a palm tree in front.
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Exactly! That Springfield trio Lakelander posted is straight out of Kansas City and in fact looks eerily like a trio of walk-ups I happen to live in here. In KC, this type of 3-story walkup typically has stylish front porches and they're called colonnade apartments or colonnades. That particular design is said to have been invented in KC and there are hundreds of them here. However, there are also many walk-ups here like the Springfield trio and the one I live in, which have no front porches. I'm not really sure these have a name or can be called 'colonnades' without the columns, but I tend to call them "porchless colonnades," because they're otherwise laid out exactly the same. They're typically 3 stories with central halls, front and back stairwells and identical units, mirror imaged through the hall axis. I think most are 6-plexes, but there are some variations, like 12-plexes (4 units per floor), or 4-story 8-plexes.
I've created an inventory of all the pre-1950s multifamily housing (with 3+ units) in Jacksonville, and the others that I've found that look like KC's typical walk-ups are 115 2nd St W
here (Lakelander also posted this one above) and a couple on the 2600 block of College St in Riverside,
here. I think it would be cool if I ended up living in one of these, to recreate my KC experience down there.
Jacksonville has a healthy collection of historic apartment buildings, but before about the 1940s, they seemed to come in a large variety of layouts, almost like it hadn't yet established a 'clone' type as KC did. The '40s saw more uniform 2-story quads, with their long side facing the street (though some were square). But I think the
variety of historic architecture is what gives Jacksonville charm that makes up for quantity, being a city that was relatively small pre-WWII.
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Originally Posted by ColDayMan
Easily my favorite Jacksonville tour since JFD was on here. Thanks!
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I'm remembered!!
But personally,
this one's my favorite. I never it made it much beyond downtown with my photo threads.
Again, great collection here, Lake!