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Originally Posted by Iconographer View Post
The houses that you encountered might be explained by some content included in the listing that I posted earlier:

Own this striking post-Art Deco concrete home built by King Soloman Rathel and his wife Marvel. This amazing couple arrived in Jacksonville in the 1920’s and during the Great Depression acquired lands along the Trout River to build this and nearly 15 other homes between 1935 and 1958.

As self-taught architects, this amazing couple incorporated rounded interior corners, stucco finished interior and exterior walls, concrete sill plates under the windows, curvilinear entry overhangs, flat roofs and signature drainpipe adornments that were all common design elements.


The Rathels sound like an interesting footnote to Jacksonville history. I'll have to investigate further.

EDIT: A-ha...

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/artic...0-9d6d4a809697
Wow, thanks for this. It is definitely worth taking a drive along there to see these houses.
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