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| + | [[Image:KeyserBuilding2008.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Keyser Building in 2008, shortly after the opening of [[Will Call Sports Grille]]]] |
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| + | [[Image:KeyserBuilding.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The [[West Florida Development & Investment Company]] occupied the Keyser Building in the 1920s]] |
| − | |caption=The Keyser Building in 1943 | + | The '''Keyser Building''' is a two-story commercial structure located at '''20-22 [[Palafox Place]]'''. Current tenants include [[Starbuck's Billiards]] (on the first floor) and [[Will Call Sports Grille]] (on the second floor). |
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| − | |location=16-26 [[Palafox Place]]
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| − | |engineer=[[Charles Hill Turner]]
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| − | |owner=[[William Swift Keyser]]
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| − | |construction_start_date=[[1910]] | |
| − | |completion_date=[[1912]] | |
| − | |renovations=[[2008]]
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| − | |size=Two stories
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| − | The '''Keyser Building''' is a two-story commercial building located at '''16-26 [[Palafox Place]]'''. Current occupants include [[Cactus Cantina]], [[Jewelers Trade Shop]], [[Play]], [[Wild Greg's Saloon]], and [[The Wine Bar on Palafox]]. | |
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| − | Since its construction, the building has been altered numerous times, including the creation of a breezeway through the northernmost end of the building's ground floor. A portion of the building's historic facade has also been covered over.
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| − | ==Construction==
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| − | [[William Swift Keyser]] purchased the Palafox Street site from the [[West Florida Steam Bakery]] on January 28, 1910. The $85,000 purchase — about $2.3 million in 2018 dollars — set a record-high price for Palafox Street frontage.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32160765/brent_keyser_real_estate_transactions/ "Largest Real Estate Deals in Many Years Put Through"]. ''The Pensacola Journal''. January 29, 1910. p. 1. Retrieved June 1, 2019 – via [[Wikipedia:Newspapers.com|Newspapers.com]]</ref> Several months later, Keyser purchased the adjacent property, formerly the site of the [[Sisters of Mercy]] convent and school.<ref>[http://brokert10.fcla.edu/DLData/CF/FullText/fhq_37_3.txt Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume XXXVII, January-April 1959, Numbers 3 and 4]</ref>
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| − | The contractor for construction of the Keyser Building was the local [[C. H. Turner Construction Company]]. Workers began excavations for the building's foundation in September 1910.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32159885/foundation_work_keyser_building/ "To Start Work on Foundation"]. ''The Pensacola Journal''. September 18, 1910. p. 7. Retrieved June 1, 2019 – via [[Wikipedia:Newspapers.com|Newspapers.com]]</ref> Construction was completed by October 1912.
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| − | Keyser, whose lumber export company went bankrupt in 1914, sold all of his Palafox Street holdings within three years.
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| − | Long vacant, the second floor of the building was renovated in [[2008]] by the developers of [[Will Call Sports Grille]], who also added a new balcony and facade to the front of the building.
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| − | ==Historical tenants==
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| − | *[[B & B Cafe]]
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| − | *[[Ball Boo & Novelty Co.]] — 24 South Palafox
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| − | *[[Gutman's Dry Goods & Notions]] — 16 South Palafox
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| − | *[[Joseph Galin]] (clothier) — 26 South Palafox
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| − | *[[Southern Express Company]]
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| − | *[[West Florida Development & Investment Company]]
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| − | *[[White & White]]
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| − | ==Other images==
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| − | File:KeyserBuilding2008.jpg|The Keyser Building in 2008
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| − | Image:KeyserBuilding.jpg|The [[West Florida Development & Investment Company]] occupied the Keyser Building in the 1920s
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| − | </gallery>
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| − | ==References==
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| | [[Category:Palafox Street buildings]] | | [[Category:Palafox Street buildings]] |
