Be careful the next time you curse a building as a bad piece of architecture. Sometimes looks aren't always what they seem. Here's seven downtown Jacksonville buildings that have been modified beyond recognition. With a little hope, maybe it's not too late to restore a few back to their original grandeur.

2. Monticello Drug Company

214-218 West Adams Street

An architectural elevation of the Monticello Drug Company building. (City of Jacksonville Historic Preservation Office)

This seven-story, Chicago-style building was designed by Mellen C. Greeley in 1929. It was constructed to be the offices of the Monticello Drug Company. The Monticello Drug Company was founded by T.S. Roberts in Monticello, FL in the 1890s and manufactured a patent medicine for malaria. The company relocated to Jacksonville in 1908 because of better transportation facilities. During WWII, it manufactured pills and liquids to treat cold symptoms. The building’s first floor was radically altered in 1982 when the fixed plate glass storefronts and cast stone facade were filled in.