Garden Street
![Garden Street 1908](https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Garden-Street-1908.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=240&q=80&w=320&s=735b84b5f7e3657cb9ceb00148287f16 320w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Garden-Street-1908.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=405&q=80&w=540&s=d9555ab267529caaf9ac2990a051db80 540w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Garden-Street-1908.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=576&q=80&w=768&s=f61c2961dbefa049acb1de49f0a733df 768w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Garden-Street-1908.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=768&q=80&w=1024&s=4bf2d4602f3e7a08308c018bc0ffe953 1024w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Garden-Street-1908.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=900&q=80&w=1200&s=ecf461f68f8a59bf1ac8caa41e5231af 1200w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Garden-Street-1908.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=1080&q=80&w=1440&s=61fc9ba15d48e73096bcd28747a55907 1440w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Garden-Street-1908.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=1440&q=80&w=1920&s=21f91fde5912cb554c388e910309278d 1920w)
Garden Street looking west, ca. 1908, UWF Historic Trust
Under the British city plan drawn by Elias Durnford in 1764, each individual building lot was issued a corresponding garden lot. The lots were located on the north edge of town between Spring Street, location of Washerwoman’s Creek, and Seventh Avenue, location of Cadet Creek. Garden Street is named after the early road that ran along these lots.
Pictured | Garden Street looking west, ca. 1908, UWF Historic Trust
![Birds Eye View of Pensacola, 1896](https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-2-N-Palafox-Mural-1896_Map.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=320&s=abffdb0aaa7b1d39c374a682e399a886 320w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-2-N-Palafox-Mural-1896_Map.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=540&s=4b34383340d36596541c32eb31e26516 540w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-2-N-Palafox-Mural-1896_Map.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=768&s=c6714a2ff738555fd5a9757d0f981a79 768w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-2-N-Palafox-Mural-1896_Map.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1024&s=d69cfe5fd4ac60cf66811e393d3861c0 1024w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-2-N-Palafox-Mural-1896_Map.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1200&s=9b7181a707dacb89f74beb6aed063802 1200w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-2-N-Palafox-Mural-1896_Map.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1440&s=9199e52e60cf9364c9cb9ede71b5b400 1440w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-2-N-Palafox-Mural-1896_Map.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1920&s=28ae553063ce4b070be18da501a8d2c7 1920w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-2-N-Palafox-Mural-1896_Map.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=2560&s=d2915a42199b1a72c3876568b081649d 2387w)
The mural on the rear of 2 N Palafox, is a birds eye view of Pensacola in 1896. Thomas C. Watson captured the maritime activities responsible for the growth and development of the city. In the 1890s, more ships entered the port than ever before. Sail gave way to steam, and rail was constructed to accommodate the industrial rise. The Muscogee Wharf Mill produced 260,000 feet of lumber each day. This chapter of Pensacola's history led to the permanent expansion of the downtown waterfront.
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Hook and Ladder #1 and Hose Reel #2
![](https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Hook-and-Ladder-1-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=240&q=80&w=320&s=314b273ddc2ee5c558a8846f5aac0873 320w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Hook-and-Ladder-1-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=405&q=80&w=540&s=83d8bf2b35e816b487ab038e0e064a04 540w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Hook-and-Ladder-1-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=576&q=80&w=768&s=8812cd0293529acb6bd89daa8e47d2ea 768w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Hook-and-Ladder-1-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=768&q=80&w=1024&s=25b10b00fd654589c0478b46d02665f4 1024w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Hook-and-Ladder-1-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=900&q=80&w=1200&s=b75d25230d1bc68130433d08db979eba 1200w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Hook-and-Ladder-1-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=1080&q=80&w=1440&s=537eca2bd8f08f4c8ba34e409c86afc2 1440w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Hook-and-Ladder-1-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=min&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=1440&q=80&w=1920&s=89c3851f2e99e4bceb792b5ab463f85a 1920w)
Mr. A. V. Clubbs constructed 107 E Garden Street around 1900. The building is in the Masonry Vernacular style, typical of the turn of the century architecture. A fire company, Hook and Ladder #1 and Hose Reel #2, originally occupied the building.
The Pensacola Fire Department traces its beginnings to 1810. In that year, the city imported two fire engines, fifty leather buckets, hoses, and nozzles from a firm in England. Despite the new equipment, firefighting was a haphazard proposition until the first volunteer firefighting company was formed in 1821, at last providing regular staffing for the city's firefighting equipment.
For the remainder of the century, the story of firefighting in Pensacola was mainly one of volunteer companies organizing, combining, and disbanding. On January 1, 1898, the city established a full-time paid fire department consisting of eighteen officers and firefighters.
Pictured | Hook and Ladder #1 and Hose Reel #2, ca. 1912, UWF Historic Trust
![Newspaper ad, January 3, 1912, Pensacola News Journal](https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Swift-Ad-Jan-3-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=320&s=2c2e7eddf5406b21a8d2961ed7f21310 320w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Swift-Ad-Jan-3-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=540&s=afd42459ce122e92bc0c59a0459edaf0 540w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Swift-Ad-Jan-3-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=768&s=ebca25edaac60a6f1e631ab30f57682d 768w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Swift-Ad-Jan-3-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1024&s=496132dc6525e03a3021a9804f57b9d9 1024w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Swift-Ad-Jan-3-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1200&s=e5e10a44126adca832536d8224975378 1200w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Swift-Ad-Jan-3-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1440&s=d1127cff97d809c512ba4e1a400bdc2c 1440w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/Stop-12-Swift-Ad-Jan-3-1912.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1920&s=1bd2ea7d5f87641035dbc4a12ee568a8 1553w)
Swift and Company built the building on the corner of Garden and Tarragona Street in 1912 as a meat packing house. At the time of opening, the building was advertised as being a “modern fireproof building planned to facilitate the sanitary handling of perishable food products.” Swift and Company owned the building until 1970. This is a fine example of early 20th century commercial architecture.