Daily Record Financial News &
Friday, April 29, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 120 • One Section
(jewelry, silver spoon and insurance papers)
(teeth with gold fillings and locks of hair)
Century of relics from Bostwick site donated to museum
Photos by Carole Hawkins
By Carole Hawkins Staff Writer
Safe deposit boxes contained things that mattered to early Jacksonville residents. There were watches and jewelry, silver and commemorative medallions and coins.
Sculpture to float above Hemming
Ledgers, bills, letters, mortgages and deeds dating back to 1903.
By Max Marbut Staff Writer
Imagine a puffy white cloud floating above Downtown, dotted with hearts, flowers and symbols of ancient icons and rituals. If you’re at Hemming Park in about nine weeks, you won’t have to imagine it — you’ll see it. Sharla Valeski, who has a reputation for avant-garde, unorthodox art whether it’s painting, sculpture or multimedia, is creating a 10,000-cubic-foot inflated sculpture made of rip-stop nylon. She’s sewing it together in the former maritime museum space at the Jacksonville Landing. “This is something I’ve been thinking about since I graduated from Jacksonville University in 1994,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to make something up in the sky.” Her original inspiration was Andy Warhol’s “Silver Clouds,” small floating pillows filled with helium that debuted in 1966 at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. “But I wanted to do something huge and helium is very expensive,” Valeski said. The inspiration that led to the work’s fruition came one day about eight years Hemming
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San Marco, Southbank apartments on the cusp
San Marco and the Southbank are edging closer to a transformation of two highprofile sites that will amp up how the popular area will live and shop. Completion is projected for 2018, adding more than 500 luxury apartments to the neighborhoods. Plans were submitted to the city for review of the long-planned East San Marco retail and multifamily project at southeast Hendricks Avenue and San Marco Boulevard. More immediate, developers of the midrise Broadstone River House along the Southbank of the St. Johns River applied for permits to build the $26.6 million apartment project. The two five-story structures will include 263 units. A 489-space parking deck will be between the residential buildings at 1655 Prudential Drive. Building 1000 will face the river; Building 2000 will front Prudential Drive. The River House is between the Duval County School Board building and the Lexington Hotel & Conference Center Jacksonville Riverwalk. The 3.7-acre River House site will provide public access to the Riverwalk and Mathis continued on Page A-2
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Birth certificate for Charles W. Bostwick Jr.
The case for a commemorative coin from Queen Mary’s 1911 coronation.
Jacques Klempf and his daughter, Alexandria, tethered themselves to a lift to help recover what’s likely the drafting table of Henry Klutho, famed Jacksonville architect. The relic had been left on the rotted second floor of the Bostwick Building, amid business papers and blueprints belonging to Klutho, one of the last office tenants before the historic Downtown building fell into disrepair. Today, the drafting table has a new home. The Klempfs three weeks ago donated it and hundreds of other items recovered during their renovation of the 1902 bank building to Jacksonville’s Museum of Science and History. MOSH Curator Alyssa Porter presented the Cowford Collection at a news conference Thursday. “It’s nearly a century’s worth of history,” Porter said. “To have this collection and to explore that history is an exciting opportunity.” Porter unveiled a jumble of bank ledgers, bills, letters and mortgages deeds, dating back to 1903. The collection also has old jewelry, watches and a silver spoon. There is a document about how to run your own flower shop, put out by the local department of commerce. There is a commemorative coin from Queen Klempf Mary’s 1911 coronation. “It gives you a picture of the things that mattered to them,” Porter said. It will take years to learn the stories behind them, she said, and some may never be known. For others, the significance is already clear. Like birth certificates from members of the Bostwick family. Patriarch Dr. William M. Bostwick was a founding director of First National Bank of Florida, which was later taken over by Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank. For over a century, the building would be owned by or closely associated with members of Bostwick’s family. With the certificates there was a folded $10 bill, wrapped in a slip of paper that says “Charles’ 1st retainer.” It was the first money Charles W. Bostwick Jr. earned as an attorney. The Klempfs found many of the objects in the nearly 180 security and safe deposit boxes inside one of the old bank vaults. Some of the boxes were already empty, but others hadn’t been opened in 80 years. “Part of what was so bizarre to me was no one thought to take a look inside them,”
Addressograph metal-plate label of a business contact.
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