It is unclear when this tile flooring was put down at the address of 17 W. Union in Jacksonville, Florida.   It could have been when the building was built in 1914.  The ground tile remains even today in 2023 after the 2021 demolition of the downtown property once, a two-story, approximately 9,000 square foot funeral parlor.

Robert  Peeples, Jr. owned the building and property which he bought in 1992. His current funeral home is located out North Main Street. Moulton- Kyle caught fire in January of 2021 and was removed shortly after. Hauled away also was a black 1967 hearse.

The building had been one of Jacksonville’s oldest which was once the funeral home business of Calvin Oak.  It was later owned in 1909 by Harry S. Moulton and Samuel A. Kyle funeral home establishment . 

H. S. Moulton died on October 21, 1939.  S. A. Kyle in 1969.

All that’s left of the once brick building is a line of brick bounding part of the old structure and the front entrance decorated tile floor. I wonder if the new builder will preserve it?

See you tomorrow,

Nan