Created: 6/2/2009 5:13:42 PM 
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The Annie Lytle Public School has been vacant for decades along Interstate 95 in Riverside and is a building without a clear future.
The Ida M. Stevens Foundation, which owns the building, has been unable to find a developer able to restore the school house that was built in 1915.
Foundation trustee Doug Milne says vandalism is a constant problem.
Milne says he still envisions restoration that will provide senior citizen housing. He says vandalism and the tough challenges in finding financing for a restoration project are making things difficult.
The President of the Jacksonville Historical Society, Jerry
Spinks, believes the building originally known as Public School Number Four has a place in Riverside.
"It is structurally sound," said Spinks, who is convinced restoration is in the future for the school house that is 94 years old.
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