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Jacksonville, Florida
Queer cocktail bar in a 1926 downtown Jacksonville building, opened 2023
Hardwicks opened downtown in 2023 as the first new LGBTQ+ bar in Jacksonville in roughly two decades — a real milestone for a city that had gone that long without one. It occupies the old United Cigar Store building at 100 East Adams Street, reworked in a renovation of around $850,000 with accordion-style windows that open the room onto the sidewalk. The name honors Jacksonville architect Taylor Hardwick, whose midcentury Haydon Burns Library — now the Jessie Ball duPont Center — stands directly across the street, and the bar deliberately frames that view of his work. Inside it's a proper cocktail bar with programming that rotates drag shows, karaoke, and Latin dance parties through the week, open Tuesday through Sunday. Central and easy to reach, it reads as the city's new front-door queer space — polished and built to pull a mixed crowd rather than cater to one niche.
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