October 27th, 2014
State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.
The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables is currently celebrated as an opulent resort. It has persevered through storms, organized crime, bankruptcy, abandonment, and is also rumored to be haunted. The Biltmore Hotel was the brainchild of John Bowman of the Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corporation, and Coral Gables real estate developer, George Merrick Read More...
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July 23rd, 2014
From St. Augustine down to Palm Beach, the historic summer getaway tour makes a quick rest stop at a one-of-a-kind lavish estate fit for a queen. The 20-acre property was originally the winter home of Majorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal empire and prosperous businesswoman. These days, Mar-a-Lago is an exclusive private club at the heart of Palm Beach County, between Lake Worth and the Atlantic Ocean Read More...
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May 21st, 2014
Florida Pavilion at 1939 World's Fair New York. Photo Courtesy: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory
Visitors to the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York (now the location for the Queens Museum) were amazed by the exhibits highlighting the futuristic 'World of Tomorrow.' At the entrance stood the iconic 700-foot Trylon obelisk and the 18-story Perisphere Read More...
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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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February 6th, 2014
If Jay Gatsby needed a retreat from the lavishly loud parties on Long Island, no other hotel could accommodate him better than the legendary Roney Plaza Hotel on Miami Beach.
The Roney Plaza was located between 23rd and 24th Streets on Collins Avenue. Before the mega hotel industry explosion on Miami Beach, the Roney Plaza was place to be during the winter season each year Read More...
Tags: Burdine's, Collins Avenue, Giralda Tower, Mediterranean Revival, Miami 1920s Land Boom Era, Miami Beach, N.B.T. Roney, Roney Plaza Hotel, Schultze & Weaver
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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 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
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