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New page: {{Infobox Building |image=SevilleTower.jpg |caption= |name=Seville Tower |location=226 South Palafox Street<br/>Pensacola, FL 32502 |architect=J.E.R. Carpenter |client=American Nat...
{{Infobox Building
|image=SevilleTower.jpg
|caption=
|name=Seville Tower
|location=226 South [[Palafox Street]]<br/>Pensacola, FL 32502
|architect=[[J.E.R. Carpenter]]
|client=American National Bank
|engineer=Selden Breck Construction Co.
|owner=[[Merrill Land]]
|construction_start_date=[[1909]]
|completion_date=[[1910]]
|renovations=1973
|date_demolished=
|cost=$250,000
|structural_system=
|style=[[Wikipedia:Louis_Sullivan|Sullivanesque]] modernism
|size=10 stories
|mapcode=<googlemap lat="30.409505" lon="-87.214397" zoom="17" width="288" height="288">
30.409468, -87.214386, Seville Tower
</googlemap>
}}
[[Seville Tower]], known originally as the '''American National Bank Building''' and later as the '''Florida National Bank Building''' (1944-1964) and the '''Empire Building''', is a ten-story office building in [[downtown Pensacola]]. It is located at 226 South [[Palafox Street]]. It was the tallest building in Florida at the time of its construction in [[1909]]. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in [[1978]].
Its location, at the intersection of [[Palafox Street|Palafox]] and [[Government Street]]s, is also the site of the first telephone exchange in Florida with exclusive operating rights, established by Southern Bell on [[September 1]], [[1880]], and serving 31 telephones.
==Current Tenants==
* [[Merrill Land]]
* [[Shell Fleming Menge & Davis]]
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[[Category:Palafox Street buildings]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places]]
|image=SevilleTower.jpg
|caption=
|name=Seville Tower
|location=226 South [[Palafox Street]]<br/>Pensacola, FL 32502
|architect=[[J.E.R. Carpenter]]
|client=American National Bank
|engineer=Selden Breck Construction Co.
|owner=[[Merrill Land]]
|construction_start_date=[[1909]]
|completion_date=[[1910]]
|renovations=1973
|date_demolished=
|cost=$250,000
|structural_system=
|style=[[Wikipedia:Louis_Sullivan|Sullivanesque]] modernism
|size=10 stories
|mapcode=<googlemap lat="30.409505" lon="-87.214397" zoom="17" width="288" height="288">
30.409468, -87.214386, Seville Tower
</googlemap>
}}
[[Seville Tower]], known originally as the '''American National Bank Building''' and later as the '''Florida National Bank Building''' (1944-1964) and the '''Empire Building''', is a ten-story office building in [[downtown Pensacola]]. It is located at 226 South [[Palafox Street]]. It was the tallest building in Florida at the time of its construction in [[1909]]. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in [[1978]].
Its location, at the intersection of [[Palafox Street|Palafox]] and [[Government Street]]s, is also the site of the first telephone exchange in Florida with exclusive operating rights, established by Southern Bell on [[September 1]], [[1880]], and serving 31 telephones.
==Current Tenants==
* [[Merrill Land]]
* [[Shell Fleming Menge & Davis]]
{{arch-stub}}
[[Category:Palafox Street buildings]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places]]
