The oldest elevator in Florida got a new lease on lift after reopening on Friday in Gainesville’s Hippodrome Theatre, and from here, officials say it’s all up and down and back up again as the elevator returns to service.
With towering Corinthian columns, the Hippodrome Theatre started as a U.S. Post Office and Federal Building in 1911, and the Otis Elevator Company installed the manually operated elevator to connect its three floors.
Back then, the building stuck out from the open fields that still sprawled in downtown Gainesville…