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A Place Worthy of Your Citizenship

4 Sep 2024

Alan Bliss

From the CEO

Who Cares About Preservation in Jacksonville?

28 May 2024

Alan Bliss

From the CEO

Adapting an historic building to use in the 21st century is difficult and expensive, so why bother? In particular, why should any public resources go into such a project? Whether historic preservation is worthy of public support is a question... Read more...

Women’s History Month: Who Opened St. Luke’s Hospital?

7 Mar 2024

Cosette Steeves

From the Archive

What’s so hard about historic preservation?

3 Dec 2023

Alan Bliss

From the CEO

Will LaVilla be Jacksonville’s Ybor City?

30 Aug 2023

JHC

From the CEO

Incorporated in 1869, the neighborhood known as LaVilla was annexed by the City of Jacksonville in 1887 and thrived into the early decades of the 20th century as the setting of Jacksonville’s richest multi-cultural, multi-ethnic life.

Women’s clothing styles at the turn of the 20th century

11 Aug 2023

Nancy Gandy

From the Merrill House Museum

Women's fashion in the early 1900s were often an expression of her place in society. Museum House Docent Nancy Gandy shares a look at clothing that could have been worn by the Merrill family women.