Category: The artist’s house
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 […]
Opechee & Taluga
Exotica 1925 One of the unique houses in Coconut Grove was home to a celebrated artist and his family. The 2 story house was built in 1925, has 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, with over 3,200 square feet situated in an ample woodsy corner of Opechee […]
IMAGINE
Comprised of crushed oolitic limestone and a lime-based cement, the concrete block that was used to build the Coconut Grove Playhouse in 1926 is larger, denser and stronger than the block that is manufactured today. The Dade County pine floor joists and roof trusses are […]
THE SUNSHINE FRUITS COMPANY INN
In 1909 the original house was a wood frame structure with a shingle roof. In 1915, it was acquired by the Sunshine Fruits Company. Sunshine had been founded 5 years prior to manage existing fruit groves for absentee owners who had purchased them as an […]
THE BATTLE OF COCONUT GROVE
Grove Development Curb Sought File this under “Some things never change”. A Miami Herald article (April 5, 1977), published 42 years ago could have been written last month. The scenario of urban planning gone amok is familiar. Grovites concerned about over development, point to Yacht […]
SCENE OF DARING COCONUT GROVE ROBBERY
Hooded Gunmen Get $31,000 in Cash & Jewels. So read the Miami Herald caption to this photo. Published on the first page of the local section on Monday, November 23, 1964. The robbery occurred while Mom & Dad were out, around midnight. Three gunmen tied […]
SOMETIMES YOU WANT TO GO. WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME.
La Casita Tea Room, (1940 circa) located at 3540 Main Highway was such a place in Coconut Grove. Owned by Grace & Bob Ously for many years. Back then, some folks still called the town My-Ah-Mah and the iced tea was always sweeten, so no […]