John Henry Willis Hawkins (1855-1923) was a New York architect who moved to

Jacksonville, Florida Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida, the most populous city proper in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the ...

after the city's

Great Fire of 1901 The Great Fire of 1901 was a conflagration that occurred in Jacksonville, Florida on May 3, 1901. It was one of the worst disasters in Florida history and the third largest urban fire in the U.S., next to the Great Chicago Fire, and the 1906 S ...

. He designed homes for Alexander Sabel, J.E. Cohen, Senator J.P. Taliaferro, W.S. Ware, and Samuel B. Hubbard. Hawkins designed the Herkimer Block at 136 East Bay Street in Downtown Jacksonville as well as the original Guaranty Trust & Savings Bank at 101 East Bay Street. He also designed the Snyder Memorial Methodist Church at 226 North Laura Street, a Dutch Colonial Revival house at 1662 Stockton Street known as A.V.S. Smith Residence and H.S. Griggs Residence at 2956 Riverside Avenue.J. H. W. Hawkins
Jacksonville Architecture

Work

* Bostwick Building, Jacksonville

References

1855 births 1923 deaths Architects from New York (state) Architects from Jacksonville, Florida {{US-architect-stub