Edward Ball Building is a , 11-floor office building at 214 North Hogan Street in downtown

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History

Construction began in 1960 and was completed the following year. It was intended as the new location for

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which had outgrown its old facility (known as the Marble Bank) on the corner of Forsyth and Laura Streets. Edward Ball managed the Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust, which controlled the bank. The architects were Saxelbye & Powell; it was built by

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. Ball dictated the building's specifications. The structure contains over and was constructed using materials which would appreciate in value, such as marble floors and granite exteriors, but excluded items that Ball considered frills. There were no executive washrooms and no hot water faucets in the entire eleven story edifice. The corporate offices of the group were housed in the upper floors and the bank's principal location was on the ground floor. Ed Ball also kept his personal office there for managing the du Pont Trust. A six-story parking garage with 339 parking spaces was constructed in 1986, adjacent to the office building and accessed from Monroe Street. After Ball's death, the building and garage were renamed the ''Edward Ball Building'' and Ed Ball Parking Garage.

Tenants

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sold the Florida National Bank building at 214 North Hogan Street to ''First States Investors'' in September, 2004 for $23,234,071. The

became Jacksonville's City Hall in 1997, but it was too small to accommodate all departments. Needing more room, the City of Jacksonville purchased the building from ''First States Investors'' in February, 2006 for $23 million. Less than two blocks from city hall, it was designated the City Hall Annex. The Building & Planning Department relocated there. A $1.3 million, 2012 renovation affected . The Municipal Code Compliance Division occupied the basement and first floors; Environmental and Compliance went to the 5th floor;

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moved to the 6th floor. Ground floor building tenants included a

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and a coffee shop.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Edward Ball building, The Downtown Jacksonville Modernist architecture in Jacksonville, Florida Architecture in Jacksonville, Florida Office buildings completed in 1961 1961 establishments in Florida