Author: mariafreed
A Ray of Sunshine on Andros Avenue
The yellow 1923 Spanish Mediterranean was built during the 1920s real estate craze on a very desirable quiet street in the coveted Kings Subdivision of North Coconut Grove. The interior covered 3,700 square feet, with a total of five bedrooms, four bathrooms including the guest […]
The Tree Guru’s House
The oldest house in our neighborhood The two-story 1909 folk house is made from Dade County Pine and was originally designed with a pyramidal roof. In the early 1920s a shed roof porch was added around three sides of the house, creating an overhang which […]
Longview Villa
We start our story with Alfred C. Whiting, a wealthy industrialist from Burlington, Vermont who had been visiting Coconut Grove for two consecutive winters before purchasing land to build his second wife Lillie a house. They insisted on living on the silver bluff, one of […]