Today’s photo features the back side of the building that was built in 1958 as Florida Street Baptist Church. It closed in 2017 due to declining enrollment. Hope Academy, a private Christian school, opened in the building in 2011. It was opened by a local pastor and his wife.

On the day we were there, we were struck by the talent and extra effort of the bricklayer who installed the crosses into the back wall, a permanent nod to the history of the building. There is a cornerstone on the northwest corner of the building. We love it when buildings document or profide clues into their origial history.

Happy Sunday!