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|image=KeyserBuilding2008KeyserBuilding1943.jpg|caption=The Keyser Building in 2008, shortly after the opening of [[Will Call Sports Grille]]1943

|location=2016-24 26 [[Palafox Place]]

|engineer=[[Charles Hill Turner]]|owner=[[William Swift Keyser]]|construction_start_date=[[1910]]|completion_date=[[1912]]

|mapcode=<googlemap version="0.9" lat="30.413539" lon="-87.215481" zoom="16" width="300" height="250">30.41235, -87.215103</googlemap>

The '''Keyser Building''' is a two-story commercial structure building located at '''2016-24 26 [[Palafox Place]]'''. Current tenants occupants include [[StarbuckCactus Cantina]], [[Jewelers Trade Shop]], [[Play]], [[Wild Greg's BilliardsSaloon]] (on the first floor) , and [[Will Call Sports GrilleThe Wine Bar on Palafox]] (on the second floor).

Formerly 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. ==Construction==[[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 School]],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>  The contractor for construction of the Keyser Building was the local [[C. H. Turner Construction Company]]. Workers began excavations for the building was erected 's foundation in {{date needed}}September 1910.<ref>[https://www. By the 1920s it was home to the 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 [[West Florida Development & Investment CompanyWikipedia:Newspapers.com|Newspapers.com]]</ref> Construction was completed by October 1912. Keyser, whose lumber export company went bankrupt in 1914, sold all of his Palafox Street holdings within three years.