Hogan Street, between Duval and Monroe, carries the Skyway monorail to James Weldon Johnson Park station, the stop beside you and the park it is named for. Warm in its quiet usefulness, this station was long known as Hemming Plaza station; its platforms were built as part of the Skyway’s northward extension to FCCJ, a project that began construction in 1993 and brought this stop into revenue service on December 15, 1997. You can feel how central this place is — it is the nearest Skyway station to Jacksonville City Hall, the Jacksonville Main Library, the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, and the John Milton Bryan Simpson United States Courthouse.
In 2020 the station took its present name when its namesake park was renamed in honor of writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson; the park had originally borne the name of Confederate soldier Charles Hemming. Stand here and imagine the flow of people and ideas that pass through: civic life, art, books, and the courthouse all within a few blocks. The park sits at your side, with Hogan Street stretching between Duval and Monroe.