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==Real Estate== | ==Real Estate== | ||
− | In [[1894]], Blount purchased lots 257 & 258 on block #29 of the [[Old City Tract]] (later known as the [[Brent Block]]) from [[Thomas Watson]], including a three-story building at the corner of [[Garden Street|Garden]] and [[Palafox Street]]s that | + | In [[1894]], Blount purchased lots 257 & 258 on block #29 of the [[Old City Tract]] (later known as the [[Brent Block]]) from [[Thomas Watson]], including a three-story building at the corner of [[Garden Street|Garden]] and [[Palafox Street]]s that would be called the [[Blount-Watson Building]].<ref>[[John Appleyard]]. ''The Brent Block,'' p. 7.</ref> After it burned in the early morning of [[November 1]], [[1905]] (called the [[Halloween Night Fire]]), Blount immediately began plans to rebuild on the site, enlisting his son, [[Fernando Moreno Blount]], as the architect. Construction of the new '''[[Blount Building]]''' began in [[1906]], concurrent with the [[Brent Building]] to which it is connected, and was completed in [[1907]]. At seven stories, it was the tallest building in Florida at the time. (This title would also be claimed by the ten-story [[American National Bank Building]] in 1910.) |
− | Blount's architectural legacy is also remembered in his summer home, [[Seamarge]], a thirty-room mansion built in [[1905]] on the western shore | + | Blount's architectural legacy is also remembered in his summer home, [[Seamarge]], a thirty-room mansion built in [[1905]] on the western Bay shore. |
==Political Career & Civil Service== | ==Political Career & Civil Service== |