Miami History: Aquila in Brickell
Aquila sculpture in the Brickell neighborhoodCasey M. Piket. On April 30, 1986, the 33-story Lincoln Tower reached a milestone when it was announced that it was officially topped-off and on schedule to open in the Summer of 1986. Two weeks later, the project’s owners revealed another important milestone for the building that would become the offices of Barnett Bank at 701 Brickell Avenue. Bank of America is now the marquis tenant in the building today.
Read full storyEntrance to Nowhere in Miami
Gate posts on NW 10th Avenue in 2021Casey M. Piket. On the periphery of the east-west expressway along NW Tenth Avenue stands two old gate posts seemingly to nowhere. They appear to be what they are, relics of an era long forgotten. The gate posts were constructed by pioneer John Sewell in 1912 to provide a grand entrance to his 46-acre tract of land that he purchased in 1906.
Read full storyLangford Building in Downtown Miami in 1926
Aerial view of SE First Street in downtown Miami on January 6, 1926Courtesy of Florida State Archives. The featured photo is an aerial view of SE First Street in downtown Miami on January 16, 1926, from the vantage of SE First Avenue looking northeast. The edifice under construction is the Miami Bank & Trust Building which was completed in the Spring of 1926 and opened under the leadership of George Nolan, who took over as the president of the bank within a couple of years after its founding in 1921.
Read full storyBiscayne Boulevard in May 1954
Biscayne Boulevard in 1954.Courtesy of the Miami Herald. This photo showcases the fine work of the women’s division of the Miami Chamber of Commerce and Garden Club in May of 1954. Cleaning and fixing up Biscayne Boulevard was the theme of the work done by these volunteers as they planted flowers in the median strip of the boulevard on this day.
Read full storyMiami History: Tuttle Avenue in 1921
Aerial view of downtown in Miami in 1921Courtesy of Miami-Dade Public Library, Romer Collection. Miami experienced several significant changes during the year of 1921. On January 1st, the city implemented a new street naming system to provide a more flexible method of structuring its address scheme to account for any future growth in the municipality’s boundaries. In addition to the change of the street names, the city also voted to recharter how its government was organized in the summer of that year, which transitioned the municipality to the current form of government structure we have in place today.
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