The Woodstock Park Congregational building at 3201 Columbus Avenue was constructed in 1954.Ģ4. Lily Fay once owned the airport that Bessie Coleman would fall to her death in 1926.Ģ3. Paxson was married to Samuel Melson’s daughter, Lily Fay Melson Paxson. Melson Company, which was involved in real estate development. Melson and vice president of the Samuel J. 978 Melson Avenue was constructed in 1916 for David and Mary Melson. Commonwealth Boulevard serves as the neighborhood’s main east-west route north of West Beaver Street.Ģ2. The Navy used the (grass) airfield for training during World War II, but eventually declared the site excess in January 1947.Ģ1. Paxon Field was probably Jacksonville’s first airfield, with the exception of the beaches. Coleman was the first African American (male or female) to become an airplane pilot, and the first American of any race or gender to hold an international pilot license.

The site where the school was built was Paxon Air Field, where Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was killed in a plane accident in 1926. Paxon became a college preparatory school and an International Baccalaureate school in 1996 and is now one of the top high schools in the nation. It included 7th through 12th grades until 1957, when Paxon Junior High was built nearby. Paxon School for Advanced Studies was originally named Paxon Field Junior-Senior High School when it opened in 1954. was employed as a salesman for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.ġ8. 1025 Melson Avenue was completed in 1926 for David and Vesta Horne. 839 Dixon Street was completed in 1928.ġ7. 821 Allison Street was completed in 1959.ġ6. Ester was employed as a sales lady at S.H. Claire Street was built in 1927 for Louis, Ella, Ester, and Frieda Denner. The building was constructed in 1961 for the Woodstock Park Baptist Church.ġ3. The Joshua Christian Faith Center at 912 St. Others included Annie Lytle, Central Riverside, Fishweir, Murray Hill (Ruth Upson), Brentwood, and South Jacksonville Grammar Schools.ġ0. It was one of 12 schools funded by a $1 million bond issue approved by Duval County voters in 1915. Annie Morgan Elementary School (Public School No. Looking south into Woodstock Park from Broadway Avenue.ĩ. The residential side of this community is dominated with various styles of architecture, but most structures are modest in size.ħ.

After the church relocated to Ontario Street in 1948, it was used by the Woodstock Park Church of Christ.Ħ. The House of Faith Church of God at 2934 Lowell Avenue was built overlooking Detroit Park in 1927 for the Woodstock Park Methodist Church. Today, Fellowship Outreach Ministries, Inc. Founded during the 1930s by Reverend George Hodges, the church fell into decline after Hodges was murdered in the church’s parking lot by a church member he had been involved with in an affair. When the former Beaver Street Baptist Church completed this mid-century modernist sanctuary in 1955, the church was one of the largest Baptist churches in the South.

In 1948, it was originally built for the Woodstock Park Methodist Church.Ĥ. The New Vision Assembly occupies a building at 795 Ontario Street. also lived in Woodstock Park and was the owner of Allison’s Garage Company at 348 West Forsyth Street.ģ. It was originally occupied by George and Pensie Allison. 2801 Broadway Avenue was completed in 1933. Deeded to the City in 1927, and filled with towering pine trees, Woodstock Park is a 15.8 acre public space in the lower central section of the neighborhood.Ģ.

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