Chase Street is an east-west road in downtown Pensacola. Its westernmost terminus is at S Street, but is interrupted for two blocks between I and G Streets. It becomes one-way (east) at Devilliers Street. At Tarragona Street it briefly joins an I-110 overpass, then takes US 98 from Ninth Avenue to its eastern terminus at Bayfront Parkway.
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| Chase Street | |
| west end: | S Street |
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| Major junctions: |
Palafox Street Tarragona Street Ninth Avenue Bayfront Parkway |
| east end: | Bayfront Parkway |
| Namesake: | William H. Chase |
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Chase Street is named for Colonel William H. Chase, the construction engineer for Forts McRee, Barrancas, Redoubt and Pickens between 1828-1854, who captured the Navy Yard (ironically, some of the same fortresses he had engineered) for Confederate forces in January, 1861.
Selected Landmarks
- Rhodes Building (headquarters of Gulf Coast Community Bank and Ballinger Publishing, among other tenants)
- St. Michael's Cemetery
- Pensacola Civic Center
- UWF Small Business Development Center
- The Jane C. Noonan Center at First Presbyterian Church (home of the Pensacola Children's Chorus)
- Residence Inn Marriott hotel
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