6th Annual Garden Tour presented by The Tides Group
The 52nd Annual Home Tour presented by The Historic Collective is April 11-12, 2026!
House on the Prairie or the Mediterranean: A 2026 Home Tour Mystery Solved
Above: 1855 Ingleside Avenue from the 27th Annual RAP Home Tour guide, c. 2000. by Elaine Slayton Akin, RAP Contributor It’s quite common for us to begin identifying the right properties for the RAP Home Tour months if not years in advance, so in early 2025 when we began considering 1855 Ingleside Avenue for a […]
52nd Annual Home Tour presented by The Historic Collective
The 52nd Annual Home Tour presented by The Historic Collective is April 11-12, 2026!
Annual Preservation & Service Awards 2026
More than 200 neighbors and community friends celebrated with RAP and RAM at the Annual Meeting & Preservation Awards on Thursday, Feb. 19!
Collections Close-Up Recap: Holidays and Entertaining in the Roaring Twenties
Above: Detail, Silverplate Wedding Cake Basket (style no. 1710) by Meriden Britannia Silver Co., Meriden, Conn., early 20th-century. For the second event in our Collections Close-Up series, a new membership initiative providing behind-the-scenes, experiential activations for our supporters in a relaxed setting (learn more here), we explored the holiday and entertaining trends of the 1920s, […]
RAP’s First Oral History: Tony’s Trees with Richard Ceriello and Scott Dowman
Appropriately, the American historic preservation advocate Richard Moe once said, “Preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.” For those of us who live in the historic […]
Collections Close-Up Recap: New Membership Initiative Reveals Hidden Gems in the Neighborhood
Back in September, Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP) debuted its first event in a new membership series, Collections Close-Up, designed to provide added experiential and educational value to our top supporters. Each event is just as described—an opportunity to closely interface with some aspect of RAP’s collection, led by RAP’s archivist and occasional special guests, in […]
Ladies’ Friday Musicale: Feminine Endurance and Creative Self-Expression, Music Tour Feature
Feature image: young performers on the Friday Musicale stage, c. 1950, courtesy Jacksonville History Center. by Elaine Slayton Akin, RAP Archivist “Call it Jacksonville’s Musical Mecca… arguably the cornerstone of [our city’s] music scene,” Mark Faulkner declared in a 2000 Florida Times-Union article celebrating Friday Musicale’s nearly 80 years at 645 Oak Street. The organization, […]
Back to School, Back in Time
Header photo: Mary Buckland with the French Primary School class of 1928. by Elaine Slayton Akin, RAP Archivist What could be a more fitting time to highlight the historic schools of Riverside Avondale and the urban core—some long gone, some still in use—than back-to-school season? As students and faculty return to classrooms and caregivers lend […]
Writing to Repair in Community: Describing Chinoiserie in the Buckland Family Collection
by Elaine Slayton Akin, RAP Archivist From its grass-roots beginnings in 1974, Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP) has focused its resources on protecting the history and culture of the Riverside and Avondale historic districts, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and ’89, respectively. RAP has long-championed the beloved character of the neighborhoods, […]