On Plaza Street at Palmetto Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Plaza Street.
In 1910, Miami’s first registered architect, Walter C. DeGarmo, partnered with Franklin C. Bush and John C. Gramling to form the Cocoanut Grove Development Company. In 1911, the company platted the subdivision in the southern part of the town of . . . — — Map (db m228378) HM
On Charles Avenue at Plaza Street, on the right when traveling east on Charles Avenue.
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A distinctive type of vernacular architecture found in Key West and South Florida is the Bahamian or Conch house. The name "Conch" was attached to Bahamians who worked as wreckers, ship builders, spongers, and merchants. The name . . . — — Map (db m150495) HM
On Charles Avenue east of Southwest 37th Avenue (Douglas Road), on the right when traveling west.
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Originally African American residents of Coconut Grove attended integrated religious services at Union Chapel, now known as Plymouth Congregational Church. The African Americans, who were used to a more spirited religious . . . — — Map (db m120630) HM
On Devon Road east of Hibiscus Street, on the left when traveling east.
The Cocoanut Grove Public Utilities Company was established in 1916 by William Matheson and his son Hugh to provide local residents with telephone and water services. A ground level storage tank, filled from wells on the site by two diesel engines, . . . — — Map (db m77925) HM
On McFarlane Road north of South Bayshore Drive, on the right when traveling north.
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This library stands as testament to the tenacity of Coconut Grove’s pioneering citizens. Established by the Pine Needles Club, an organization for young girls formed by local teacher Mary Barr Munroe, the first library operated out . . . — — Map (db m150781) HM
On Main Highway at Charles Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Main Highway.
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This theater is one of the few structures in downtown Coconut Grove that typifies the flamboyant era of the 1920s. Envisioned by Miami entrepreneurs Irving Thomas and Fin Pierce, The Grove was a luxurious movie theater designed in . . . — — Map (db m150783) HM
Near South Douglas Road (Southwest 37th Avenue), 0.1 miles south of Bayview Road, on the left when traveling south.
This low oolitic limestone building was the office and stable of Dr. Eleanor Galt Simmons (1854 – 1909), Dade County’s first female physician. Simmons, a Bryn Mawr College alumna, graduated from the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia in 1880. . . . — — Map (db m145501) HM
On Charles Avenue west of Main Highway, on the left when traveling west.
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Bahamian immigrants played an integral role in the development of Coconut Grove. African-Bahamian immigrant Ebenezer Woodbury Franklin Stirrup was born in 1873, and emigrated from the Bahamas in 1888. Stirrup worked as a . . . — — Map (db m150795) HM
On Main Highway north of Hibiscuss Street, on the right when traveling north.
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In the early 20th century, John Bindley (1846-1921), president of the Pittsburgh Steel Company, was among a wave of wealthy northern industrialists who built winter homes along the shore of Biscayne Bay. In 1917, he purchased this . . . — — Map (db m146091) HM
On Charles Avenue at Southwest 37th Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Charles Avenue.
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In the late 1800s, African-Bahamians migrated to the United States after exhaustion of the islands’ rocky soil. South Florida and the Florida Keys, with similar geography and climate, became attractive destinations. Most Bahamians . . . — — Map (db m150852) HM
On South Bayshore Drive at McFarlane Road, on the right when traveling south on South Bayshore Drive.
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Organized as the Housekeepers Club of Coconut Grove when it was founded in 1891, the Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove is the oldest federated woman’s club in South Florida. Together with other pioneer women, local school teacher Flora . . . — — Map (db m150790) HM
On Charles Avenue, 0.1 miles west of Main Highway, on the left when traveling west.
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Mariah Brown was born in the Upper Bogue, Eleuthera, Bahamas in 1851 and immigrated to the United States in 1880. Brown lived in Key West with her three daughters and worked as a laundress. By 1889, Brown had moved to Coconut Grove . . . — — Map (db m150796) HM
On Pan American Drive at South Bayshore Drive, in the median on Pan American Drive.
Known as the “Air Gateway between the Americas”, the Pan American Seaplane Base and Terminal Building is significant in the history of modern air transportation and is an outstanding example of air terminal design. In 1929, Pan American Airways . . . — — Map (db m150780) HM
On Main Highway at Via Abitare Way, on the right when traveling north on Main Highway.
The Barnacle is the oldest home in Dade County still standing on its original site. It was built in 1891 by Ralph Middleton Munroe, one of Coconut Grove's most prominent pioneers. He first visited South Florida in 1877 and moved to this area in . . . — — Map (db m77536) HM
On South Bayshore Drive north of Darwin Street, on the right when traveling north.
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This seaplane hangar was a part of the first permanent United States Coast Guard Air Station in the country. Built in 1932, the hangar served as a crucial center for Coast Guard aviation in Florida. Planes from Dinner Key carried . . . — — Map (db m150778) HM
On South Le Jeune Road (State Road 953) at Sunset Drive (State Road 986), on the right when traveling north on South Le Jeune Road.
When developer George Merrick (1886-1942) and the Coral Gables Corporation conceived the master plan for Coral Gables in the 1920s, the city's boundaries encompassed waterfront acreage allowing access to waterways. The original city boundaries went . . . — — Map (db m74931) HM
On Brickell Avenue, 0.2 miles north of Southeast 32nd Road, on the right when traveling north.
In 1961, attorney Alice C. Wainwright became the first woman elected to the Miami City Commission. Four years later, she was Miami’s first woman vice-mayor. All her life, Wainwright was a fierce advocate for environmental issues, and worked . . . — — Map (db m146369) HM
On Hibiscus Street at Percival Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Hibiscus Street.
Elizabeth Virrick was born in Winchester, Kentucky in 1897. After studying architecture and interior design at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University, she moved to Miami with her husband in 1925. Virrick met Coconut Grove activist and . . . — — Map (db m146364) HM
