Downtown Jacksonville is reclaiming its spirited past.
![The Pratt Family Funeral Home was constructed in 1915-16.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4fd6898/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1125+0+0/resize/880x495!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fae%2F94%2Fa9281cf9422ebbb8c249e8a90d2e%2Fpratt.jpg)
Dan Macdonald
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Jacksonville Daily Record
The new owner of 525 W. Beaver St., believed to have been Florida’s first funeral home, proposes to transform it into The Raven, a nod to 19th century mystery and macabre poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe.
Eric Adler, owner of Silver Street Management, wants to convert the building into a long-term residential and Airbnb rental property as well as transform the former hearse garage into a retail opportunity.
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