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Revision as of 04:20, 13 November 2007

Blount Building
Blountbuilding.jpg
The Blount Building
Building Information
Location 3 West Garden Street
Client William Alexander Blount
Engineer C. H. Turner
Current Owner Rainwater family
Completion Date 1907
Cost $200,000
Size Seven stories
<googlemap lat="30.412827" lon="-87.215524" zoom="17" width="300" height="250">

30.412549, -87.215577, Blount Building </googlemap>

The Blount Building is a seven-story office building on the southwest corner of Palafox and Garden Streets. The building is named for William Alexander Blount, who ordered its construction after the Halloween Night Fire of 1905 destroyed the earlier Blount-Watson Building on the same site.

Current tenants

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