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{{Infobox Building
|image=PalafoxWaterfrontPhenix.jpg|caption=The Phenix Building circa 1890s
|name=Phenix Building
|location=[[Palafox]] and [[Cedar Street]]s
|architect=[[L.C. Sarra]]
|client=[[William Fisher]]
|engineer=[[L.C. Sarra]]
|construction_start_date=
|completion_date=[[1893]]|date_demolished=[[2004 ]] (from damage received in [[Hurricane Ivan]])
|cost=
|structural_system=
}}
The '''Phenix Building''' was an a historic building at the corners corner of [[Palafox]] and [[Cedar Street]]s, immediately adjacent to south of the famous [[Trader Jon's building]]. An 1893 advertisement in the [[Daily News]] read as follows:<pre> {{bquote|FOR RENT, in the new three-storybuilding on Palafox, below main, to beknown as "THE PHENIX," the followingapartments: Two small store rooms, 10x50, suitablefor fruit or tobacco stores, or for offices,on ground floor: water and gas. Three elegant rooms on second floor,suitable for offices or sleeping rooms;S.W. exposure, plastered and papered,water and gas. Hall on third floor, 50x50, plasteredand papered, no columns, has fireplaces,water and gas, accessible by two flightsstairs. Ventilated from every quarter. Terms low to right parties. Apply atonce to L.C. Sarra, Builder</pre>}}
Early tenants included a barbershop, cigar store, and [[Dunn's Hotel]]. In [[1903 ]] it had become the [[Bay Hotel]], Restaurant and Shooting Gallery.
Its last tenant was [[Sarah's]], an upscale women's clothing store and boutique. The damage it received in 2004 from [[Hurricane Ivan]] was so severe, the building (in spite of its name) had to be demolished.
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[[Category:Demolished structures]]
