Changes

Prior to [[Lewis Bear]]'s purchase of the parcel in [[1892]], another building existed on the site which housed a fish market on the ground floor and a city jail on the second floor. Bear demolished that building and constructed the Bear Block.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhdatapage&fileName=fl/fl0000/fl0013/data/hhdatapage.db&recNum=1&itemLink=S?pp/hh:@field(TITLE+@od1(Bear+Block,+404+South+Palafox+Street,+Pensacola,+Escambia+County,+FL)) Report of the Historic American Buildings Survey, 1968]</ref>

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