Florida heard its first talking picture in this building in 1927; now the same walls carry touring rock at 1,250 capacity. FIVE, at 1028 Park Street in Jacksonville's Five Points district, is the 2025 rebirth of the historic Riverside Theater - later the 5 Points Theatre and Sun-Ray Cinema - a room that has cycled through nearly a century of entertainment lives in the heart of the Riverside-Avondale neighbourhood. The theatre opened in March 1927 as the first in Florida equipped for talkies, an.....

It was an industrial goth club called The Dungeon before it became the nation's best-known Christian rock venue - few buildings have swung harder between identities. The Murray Hill Theatre, at 932 Edgewood Avenue South in Jacksonville's Murray Hill neighbourhood, opened on 8 January 1949 as a movie house. The cinema years were classic neighbourhood Americana: architect William Marshall designed the theatre for the Avenue of Progress shopping strip, and Mayor Haydon Burns attended an opening ga.....

Fourteen Doric columns that once welcomed 20,000 rail passengers a day now front a convention hall. The Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center at 1000 Water Street in downtown Jacksonville is a 265,000-square-foot events complex built into the former Jacksonville Union Terminal, the Neoclassical Revival station that opened on 17 November 1919 as the largest railroad terminal in the American South. Architect Kenneth M. Murchison - who also designed Baltimore's Penn Station - gave the terminal a m.....