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Haydon Burns Library in Jacksonville, ca. 1968 Colorful mural. When built in 1965 at a cost of $3.7 million, it was considered state of the art. The 126,000 sq ft (11,700 m 2), three-story building was designed by local architect Taylor Hardwick, who designed dozens of other buildings in Jacksonville starting in the mid-1950s including the Skinner Dairy chain and Friendship Fountain and Park.
Jessie Ball duPont (January 20, 1884 – September 26, 1970) was an American teacher, philanthropist and designated a Great Floridian by the Florida Department of ...
The Fowler Center is located on Texas Avenue and is the recreation center for the university. It houses swimming pools, basketball courts, tennis courts, a running track, and weight rooms and group exercise rooms. Many of the trophies from Sewanee's athletic history are also located in this building. The duPont Library first opened in 1965.
David Collins was born on December 18, 1922, in Hot Springs, Arkansas.He graduated from the University of the South in 1943 [3] and served in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946, stationed at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, [4] and the United States Navy Reserve from 1946 to 1960. [5]
Sherry Magill is the former president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, where she served for more than 25 years. She lives in Jacksonville.
After a career in the family's gunpowder business, duPont turned his focus to charitable work. [5] [1] Upon his death in 1935, the Alfred I. duPont Charitable Trust was established. A year later, his widow Jessie Ball duPont, along with the other trustees, incorporated The Nemours Foundation in Jacksonville, Florida. [1]
Gateway Retail Center LLC has been permitted to remodel the exterior façade for spaces 11, 12, and 12a at 5258 Norwood Ave. for a Burlington store.
The Epping Forest (also known as the Alfred I. duPont Estate) was a historic, 58-acre (230,000 m 2) estate in Jacksonville, Florida, United States where a luxurious riverfront mansion was built in the mid-1920s by industrialist Alfred I. du Pont and his third wife, Jessie Ball du Pont.