J Magazine Winter 2019
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Saving<br />
Casket<br />
the<br />
Factory<br />
The former home of the<br />
Florida Casket Company is getting<br />
new life as a place for the Jacksonville<br />
Historical Society to process archives<br />
BY MIKE CLARK<br />
PHOTOS BY WILL DICKEY<br />
very old building isn’t historic.<br />
Some buildings are simply<br />
old.<br />
But some buildings have<br />
stories to tell and deserve to be<br />
preserved with a new role.<br />
That’s the case with the former<br />
St. Luke’s Hospital and its<br />
next-door neighbor, the former<br />
Casket Factory at 314 Palmetto<br />
St., between the Maxwell House plant and the VyStar<br />
Veterans Memorial Arena.<br />
EBuilt in 1924, the former Florida Casket Factory building at 314 Palmetto<br />
St., was purchased by the Jacksonville Historical Society in 2012.<br />
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J MAGAZINE | WINTER <strong>2019</strong>
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