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Hemming Plaza is a block sized park in the
center of Jacksonville's downtown. Named for Confederate
veteran Charles C. Hemming, who in 1898 donated to the City
the Confederate monument which is the focal point of the
park. The park is surrounded by Jacksonville's City Hall,
the United States Courthouse, the Museum Of Contemporary
Art, the new public Main Library for Jacksonville, the
former Snyder Memorial Church and various restaurants. Step
inside City Hall, which is a restored department store built
in 1912 and designed in the prairie style by noted local
architect Henry John Klutho, and take a look at the large,
sunlit atrium which dominates the interior of the structure.
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