
At the corner of Flagler Avenue and NE Second Street there is a masonry building with the name "Belvill" on it. It was constructed in 1934 by T. Sol Belvill to replace an earlier, wooden building (shown in the photograph) that had burned down.
It is not clear when the original Belvill building was constructed, but it was before the First World War. The old building housed the U.S. Post Office and commercial space on the ground floor and hotel rooms on the second.
Following the fire that destroyed the wooden building, the Post Office moved to the Masonic Lodge building on the south side of Pompano Canal. That building, just east to today's City Hall, was recently demolished to make way for a new library.
# posted by Dan Hobby @ 7:35 AM