October 30th, 2015
Florida Central College campus. Photo courtesy of the State Archives of Florida.
Central Florida is known as "The Theme Park Capital of the World", but did you know that one of America’s most famous architects designed a college campus there? Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright Read More...
Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright
Posted in Architects, Preservation, Uncategorized, Videos |
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February 9th, 2015
WLRN reports on a city-wide transformation of Opa-Locka, the subject of our 2013 exhibition at HistoryMiami. We are excited at the progress and are looking forward to more good news as renewal efforts take hold and grow.
[caption id="attachment_2599" align="alignnone" width="542"] Opa-locka's first art and recreation center Read More...
Posted in "Opa-locka: Mirage City", Opa-locka, Preservation |
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April 23rd, 2014
Henry M. Flagler in Key West. Photo Courtesy: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory
Grab your fishing rod, pack the cooler, and drive on down to the Florida Keys for a blissful day out on the historic old Seven Mile Bridge. While the adjacent bridge is used for automobile transportation, the old bridge is a lasting legacy of Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway Read More...
Tags: Florida East Coast Railway, Henry Flagler, Henry M. Flagler Museum, old Seven Mile Bridge
Posted in By Location, Key West, Preservation |
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April 9th, 2014
It is no surprise that when looking at Miami Boom-Era architecture the name Kiehnel & Elliott comes to mind. The firm, originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had designed several buildings before moving its offices to Miami in 1922. The firm’s buildings became exemplary of the Mediterranean Revival style during the 1920s such as the extravagant El Jardin (now the Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart) in Coconut Grove Read More...
Tags: Allan T. Shulman, and Coconut Grove, ArtCenter South Florida, Barclay Plaza Hotel, Bet-Ovadia Chabad of the Grove, Bryan Memorial Methodist Church, Carlyle Hotel, Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, Coconut Grove, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Coral Gables, Coral Gables Congregational Church, Coral Gables Grammar School, Coral Gables Preparatory Academy, Downtown Miami, El Jardin, James Royal Palm Resort, Kiehnel & Elliott, Little Havana, Lummus Park, Mediterranean Revival style, Miami Architecture: An AIA Guide Featuring Downtown, Miami Boom-Era architecture, Miami Senior High School, Nunnally Building, Scottish Rite Temple, Seybold Building, Shorecrest Hotel, the Beaches
Posted in Architects, Art Deco, By Location, Downtown Miami, Kiehnel & Elliott, Mediterranean Revival, Miami, Miami Beach, Photo Galleries, Preservation |
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March 27th, 2014
Photo Courtesy: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory
Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ (1890-1998) name is synonymous with Florida environmental activism. The Minnesota-born, Wellesley College graduate came to Miami in 1915, at age 25, to work as a society columnist for the Miami Herald. Her father, Frank Stoneman, was editor-in-chief at the time Read More...
Tags: Big Cypress, Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, Environmental Impact of the Big Cypress Swamp Jetport, Equal Rights Amendment, Florida environmental activism, Friends of the Everglades, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Mary Bryan, The Everglades: River of Grass, The Miami Herald, Voice of the River, women’s suffrage
Posted in Audio, Big Cypress, Everglades, Photo Galleries, Preservation, Videos, YouTube Video |
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February 20th, 2014
Booker T. Washington School Building, February 15, 1930. Photo Courtesy: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory
Grab your books, head out the door, and get ready for class at Booker T. Washington Senior High School. The Overtown high school has made recent news with its nationally ranked championship football team Read More...
Tags: Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South Florida, Booker T. Washington High School, Booker T. Washington Middle School, Chapman House, Chapman House Ethnic Heritage Children’s Folklife Educational Center, Dr. William A. Chapman, Inc., Marvin Dunn’s Black Miami in the Twentieth Century, Masonry Vernacular, McHarry Architects, Miami Black Education, Overtown, Robert Bradford Browne, Sr.
Posted in Audio, McHarry Architects, Overtown, Photo Galleries, Preservation, Robert Bradford Browne, Vernacular, Videos, YouTube Video |
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February 14th, 2014
Purvis Young in his studio. Photo Courtesy: The New York Times Student Journalism Institute
Beyond the constant roar of Interstate 95 and the scattered detritus of an era long forgotten, there are the brightly painted wall surfaces done by the late artist Purvis Young. The African-American artist, born in 1943, lived and worked in Overtown until his death in 2010 Read More...
Tags: 3rd Avenue StreetScape Project, African American Art, Culmer/Overtown Branch Library, Dixie Park Branch Library, Goodbread Alley mural, Northside Metrorail Station Mural, old main public library Bayfront Park, Overtown, Public Art, Purvis Young, Visions of the Street
Posted in Audio, Overtown, Photo Galleries, Preservation, Videos, YouTube Video |
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January 30th, 2014
The show will go on for the Coconut Grove Playhouse located on the cusp of the Grove’s downtown retail district on Main Highway. It was announced early in 2014 that the Miami-Dade County $20 million bond set aside for the Playhouse restoration took effect, opening the doors for Florida International University (FIU) and the county to lease the Playhouse from the State of Florida Read More...
Tags: A Streetcar Named Desire, Alfred Browning Parker, Coconut Grove Playhouse, D.W. Griffith’s Sorrows of Satan, El Jardin, GableStage, George Engle, Inc., Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotton, Kiehnel & Elliott, Mediterranean Revival, Miami’s Land Boom Era, Paramount Enterprises, Players State Theater, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Spanish Baroque-style, Tallulah Bankhead, Tennessee Williams
Posted in Alfred Browning Parker, Architects, Coconut Grove, Kiehnel & Elliott, Mediterranean Revival, Neighborhoods, Preservation, Videos |
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January 23rd, 2014
Ernest Hemingway House. 907 Whitehead Street
Feeling the winter blues in Florida? Head south to Monroe County, cross the Seven Mile Bridge into Key West and take a tour of the famous 19th-century houses. The houses are often referred to as “Conch,” a term that originally meant native Bahamian Read More...
Tags: Amos Roberts House, Bahama House, Classical Revival architecture, Conch, Ernest Hemingway House, Eyebrow Houses, Folk Victorian, Key West homes, Queen Anne Style architecture, Shotgun Houses, Shriners Parade, Vernacular, Victorian Style Houses
Posted in Architectural Styles, Bahamian/Conch, By Location, Classical Revival, Key West, Preservation, Vernacular, Videos |
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January 16th, 2014
Escape the noisy metropolitan city life one weekend and imagine it’s the Jazz Age again: book a room at The Breakers Hotel and spend a sunny afternoon visiting the site of the original Bingham-Bolton-Blossom 160-acre subtropical estate on the island of Palm Beach. The picturesque property included Figulus, built in 1893 as the winter home of Charles W Read More...
Tags: Abram Garfield, Bingham-Bolton-Blossom Estate, Casa Apava, Charles W. and Mary Bingham, David Fairchild, English country manor-style, Figulus, Forrest A. Coburn, Frances and Chester C. Bolton, Historical Society of Palm Beach County, National Register of Historic Places, Palm Beach, Shingle-style architecture, Spanish Mediterranean Revival
Posted in Abram Garfield, American Colonial, Architects, Architectural Styles, Forrest A. Coburn (Coburn & Barnum), Mediterranean Revival, Palm Beach, Preservation, Shingle-style, Videos |
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