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First National Bank (Brooksville, Florida)
First National Bank is a historic bank building in Brooksville, Florida. It was built in 1910 and is located at 1 Main Street. The 2-story brick building includes cast iron columns.Brooksville
City on a Hill, Florida History
The brick exterior was remodeled to give it a more Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical appearance before 1926. The bank's first president, John Weeks, owned Weeks Hardware (built in 1913) at 115 North Main. It is now used for the offices of Browning Insurance. John R. Culbreath once served as the chairperson for the bank.


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Brooksville is the name of several places in the United States: * Brooksville, Blount County, Alabama * Brooksville, Morgan County, Alabama * Brooksville, Florida **Brooksville Army Airfield, named after the Florida town * Brooksville, Georgia * Brooksville, Kentucky **Brooksville Independent-Graded School District, named after the Kentucky town * Brooksville, Maine * Brooksville, Mississippi * Brooksville, Oklahoma * Brooksville, West Virginia, an unincorporated community also known as Bigbend, West Virginia See also

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Brooksville is the name of several places in the United States: * Brooksville, Blount County, Alabama * Brooksville, Morgan County, Alabama * Brooksville, Florida **Brooksville Army Airfield, named after the Florida town * Brooksville, Georgia * Brooksville, Kentucky **Brooksville Independent-Graded School District, named after the Kentucky town * Brooksville, Maine * Brooksville, Mississippi * Brooksville, Oklahoma * Brooksville, West Virginia, an unincorporated community also known as Bigbend, West Virginia See also * Brookville (other) * Brooksville Advent Church Brooksville Advent Church is a historic church at 1338 Dog Team Road in New Haven, Vermont. It was built in 1837 and added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States ...
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Brooksville, Florida
Brooksville is a city in western Florida and the county seat of Hernando County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 7,719, up from 7,264 at the 2000 census. Brooksville is home to historic buildings and residences, including the homes of former Florida Governor William Sherman Jennings and football player Jerome Brown. It is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Brooksville, established in 1856 by the merger of the towns of Melendez and Pierceville, took its name to honor and show support for Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery congressman from South Carolina who caned and seriously injured Massachusetts Senator and abolitionist Charles Sumner. Geography Brooksville is located in east-central Hernando County, north of Tampa and southwest of Ocala. The geographic center of Florida is north-northwest of Brooksville. According to the United States Census Bureau, Brooksville has a total area of , of whi ...
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Neoclassical Architecture
Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing styles of architecture in most of Europe for the previous two centuries, Renaissance architecture and Baroque architecture, already represented partial revivals of the Classical architecture of ancient Rome and (much less) ancient Greek architecture, but the Neoclassical movement aimed to strip away the excesses of Late Baroque and return to a purer and more authentic classical style, adapted to modern purposes. The development of archaeology and published accurate records of surviving classical buildings was crucial in the emergence of Neoclassical architecture. In many countries, there was an initial wave essentially drawing on Roman architecture, followed, from about the start of the 19th century, by a second wave of Greek Revival architec ...
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Weeks Hardware
Weeks Hardware is a historic two-story brick 1913 hardware store building in Brooksville, Florida, located at 115 North Main.Brooksville
Old Time City on a Hill, Florida History
The store was called Miro Hardware through the end of World War II, as a combination of the first names of Rosie and Mammie Weeks. As of 2003, the store was the "oldest active business in town," according to the St. Petersburg Times, which added:
The reluctance to modernize is evident everywhere. The ceiling is high, made of elaborately patterned tin and in need of paint. The freight elevator in the back of the store is powered by hand. A tall, darkly stained plywood case that holds bolts and screws in its dozens of drawers, was built, according to a little brass label on one corner, by A.R. Brown on May 7, 1901.
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