Before the current Holly Hill City Hall was built, the city’s business was transacted in a modest two-story wood-frame house on Daytona Avenue where Sica Hall Community Center now stands. It had a holding cell and city offices on the first floor. A sign on the porch said, “Ring bell for fire, police.” The jail is shown on the right. Schoolchildren from the nearby school would stop by to look at any prisoners through the window.
If you notice in the photo of Lucy and Bob the porch had coquina pillars. This porch was lost in a storm and the simple overhang replaced it.
Julius E. Sizemore and his wife Lucy looked after things and lived on the house’s second floor. He was the one who’d often answered the bell if somebody rang after hours and Lucy would cook for the prisoners should anyone remain in custody by dinner time. It was, needless to say, an informal operation.
The family picture of the Sizemore Family Left to Right - Back Thad, Doris, Carl, Bryon - Front, J.E., Bobby, Lucy.
For its last hoorah the house became the Halifax Boys and Girls Club until they moved into the only remaining structure from the school buildings on the outside of City Hall, the school cafeteria.
If you notice in the photo of Lucy and Bob the porch had coquina pillars. This porch was lost in a storm and the simple overhang replaced it.
Julius E. Sizemore and his wife Lucy looked after things and lived on the house’s second floor. He was the one who’d often answered the bell if somebody rang after hours and Lucy would cook for the prisoners should anyone remain in custody by dinner time. It was, needless to say, an informal operation.
The family picture of the Sizemore Family Left to Right - Back Thad, Doris, Carl, Bryon - Front, J.E., Bobby, Lucy.
For its last hoorah the house became the Halifax Boys and Girls Club until they moved into the only remaining structure from the school buildings on the outside of City Hall, the school cafeteria.
