It saddened Bess that the church had closed off the third floor, using her bedroom and her sisters’ on the second floor for Sunday School classes. Beneath the two-story portico upheld with six Corinthian columns, a coffered ceiling looks down on a balcony that curves outward into open arms. Three great brick chimneys balanced the composition.” Surely the house’s most striking mise-en-scène remains its entrance. It’s clear the “egg and arrow,” yonic and phallic, is a pagan symbol of fertility, whether the prim and mannered folks who “courted” here at turn of the 20 th century understood it as such.Ĭourtesy Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commissionīess remembered the “warm wine color” of the living room across the foyer, a velour davenport and tall mahogany bookcases “imparting a leathery masculinity to the room.” She spoke of the long mahogany sideboard and table with a dozen chairs in the dining room. In his 1983 book The Architecture of Henry John Klutho: The Prairie School in Jacksonville, Robert Broward writes, “The attic contained a large billiard room with arched dormer windows punctuating a mansard roof. Baalbek is an ancient Lebanese city northeast of Beirut, called, in the days of the Roman Empire, Heliopolis, “City of the Sun.” Ruins of several Roman temples populate the city. ![]() Gould wrote that “Klutho adopted a design idea from the ruins of the Lebanese temple Baalbeck: The motif of the egg and the arrow (life in the midst of death) that is repeated on the columns and throughout the interior.”Īrchitectural historians never mention Klutho’s “egg and dart” moulding, though plenty of “Colonial Revival” architects used it. He also won the commission to build the new City Hall. The Great Fire of 1901 had drawn the young New York architect south in its wake. The house was one of Klutho’s first commissions in Jacksonville. The judge also ordered that Marx not consume alcohol or illegal drugs, and added that he may be subject to random drug and alcohol screenings.Jacksonville City Hall, courtesy State Archives of Florida, Wood County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney James Hoppenjans had no objections, but asked that Marx be ordered to wear an ankle GPS monitor, and have no contact with the alleged victim. The rape charge carries a possible sentence of 16 ½ years, plus a fine of $20,000, while the sexual battery carries a possible sentence of five years and $10,000 fine.Ī representative of Marx’s attorney Lorin Zaner asked the court to continue bond on Marx’s own recognizance. Mack explained the possible sentences if Marx were found guilty. The offenses allegedly took place on or about Jan. On the sexual battery charge, Marx allegedly engaged in sexual contact with the victim, knowing that the victim submitted because she was unaware that the act was being committed. Marx, who founded Bowling Green Beer Works on North Grove Street, had been indicted by a Wood County grand jury in September for rape, a first-degree felony, and sexual battery, a third-degree felony.Īccording to court documents on the rape charge, Marx allegedly engaged in sexual conduct with a victim while knowing that person’s ability to resist or consent was substantially impaired because of a mental or physical condition, or because of advanced age. ![]() 29, at 2:30 p.m., before Wood County Common Pleas Court Judge Molly Mack. Marx, 47, Bowling Green, pleaded not guilty today to charges of rape and sexual battery.Ī pretrial has been scheduled for Nov.
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