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[[Image:SevilleQuarterCorridor.jpg|thumb|right|A hallway inside Seville Quarter]]
[[Heritage Hall was added in May 2003 as a space available to rent for banquets, meetings and private parties. ==Images==<gallery>Image:SevilleQuarter2.jpgImage:HeritageHallRosieOGradysMarquee.jpg|thumbAn old Rosie O'Grady's marquee promoting performers and drink specials. Photo © Nelson K. Hamilton.Image:BobSnowSings.jpg|right|Heritage Hall]]Bob Snow sings with the "Rosie O'Grady's Sixie, Racing & Marching Society Jazz Band." Photo © Nelson K. Hamilton.</gallery>
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| company_name = Seville Quarter
| company_logo =[[Image:SevilleQuarter1.jpg|250px]]
| company_type = Nightclub/restaurant
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| dissolved =
| footnotes =
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30.409639, -87.21301, Seville Quarter
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[[Seville Quarter]] is an entertainment complex in [[downtown Pensacola]] comprised of several "rooms," each with its own theme: '''Rosie O'Grady's''', '''Lili Marlene's''', '''Fast Eddie's''', '''Apple Annie's''', '''Palace Oyster Bar''', '''Phineas Phogg's''', and '''End O'The Alley Bar'''. The rooms are connected by covered brick alleyways. An open-air courtyard with fountain sits on the north side of the complex. Another building, and '''Heritage Hall''', was added in May 2003. The complex is decorated in a largely Victorian style with furniture and other elements salvaged from historic buildings from Pensacola and across the world.
==History==
[[Image:RosieOGradysWarehouse.jpg|thumb|left|The original "Rosie O'Grady's Warehouse," photo © Nelson K. Hamilton]]
Seville Quarter was founded by [[Bob Snow]], a Dixieland trumpet player and former [[Navy]] pilot. It opened in the former [[Pensacola Cigar and Tobacco Company]] building as "Rosie O'Grady's Warehouse" in August [[1967]].
Snow bought it back in [[1986]], but remained too occupied by Church Street Station and other projects to run the smaller business, so it remained boarded up. He said while seeking a buyer, "The terms are very negotiable … I'm anxious to dump it."<ref>"Snow sets $3.5 million price for Seville Quarter." ''Nation's Restaurant News'', February 22, 1988.</ref>
It was finally purchased by Willmer Mitchell in [[1988]], who now runs the business with his wife and seven children.
==Rooms==
[[Image:SevilleQuarter1SevilleQuarterCorridor.jpg|thumb|leftright|A hallway inside Seville Quarter]][[Image:SevilleQuarter2HeritageHall.jpg|thumb|leftright|Heritage Hall]]
===Rosie O'Grady's===
Rosie O'Grady's was the first room of Seville Quarter, opening in 1967 as "Rosie O'Grady's Warehouse" and also known as "Rosie O'Grady's Goodtime Emporium."
The Rosie's building was previously the [[Pensacola Cigar and Tobacco Company]]. The door to the main entrance was salvaged from a mansion in [[Mobile]].
It is the home of Seville's "Dueling Pianos" show. The featured drink is the [[Flaming Hurricane]].
===Lili Marlene's===
Lili Marlene's World War I Aviators Pub is located across from Rosie's. It is adorned with model biplanes that hang from the ceiling.
The Lili's building originally housed the [[Pensacola Printing Company]]. The bars in Lili's came from the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago and date back to 1880. The long wooden benches hail from London, chairs from the Massachusetts Supreme Court, pub mirrors from Edinburgh, Scotland, and light fixtures from an Atlanta mansion.
Lili Marlene's has several big-screen televisions used to watch sporting events. It is also where [[Krazy George]] hosts karaoke several times a week.
===Fast Eddie's===
Fast Eddie's Billiard Parlor (former Coppersmith's Gallery) is Seville Quarter's pool hall.
Among the salvaged furniture are doors and wheels from old ships, English chandeliers, New Orleans cypress doors, benches from the old [[L&N Passenger Depot and Express Office|L&N Passenger Depot]]. The wainscot and wall paneling were fashioned out of solid wood doors from the [[American National Bank Building]].
Sports memorabilia on display include [[Jerry Pate]]'s U.S. Open 5 iron, [[Emmitt Smith]]'s Bowl jersey, [[Ken Stabler]]'s Sugar Bowl seat and [[Roy Jones]]'s boxing gloves.
===Apple Annie's===
Apple Annie's Courtyard is a large reception room used for various functions. In addition to standard fare, the bar also serves a variety of frozen drinks.
A large fountain is located in one corner of the courtyard, topped with a stone eagle from the Chicago Fraternal Order of Eagles building. Apple Annie's also features wooden beams salvaged from the ballroom of [[the Casino]], [[Pensacola Beach]]'s first tourist attraction, and glass doors from the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans.
===Palace Oyster Bar===
===Phineas Phogg's===
===End O'The Alley Bar===
===Heritage Hall===
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