CORAL GABLES POSTCARDS

  The Land Boom of the 1920’s

 

 

MIAMI BILTMORE HOTEL and COUNTRY CLUB

1200 Avenue Anastasia – seen for miles in flat Miami.

Architects: Schultze and Weaver (1925-1926)

The Largest Hotel Pool in World When It Opened

  The Patio at the Biltmore

 

City Hall  405 Biltmore Way (1927-1928)

    Phineas Paist & Denman, Fink – architects

 

  A planned city of canals and theme architecture . . .

  Coral Gables Country Club – Mediterranean Revival

   Antila Hotel – one of many small hotels in Boom.

1923 design by Kiehnel & Eliot

 Located on DeSoto Boulevard

1925 Grenada Boulevard Entrance by Denman Fink

   The Most Impressive of the Entranceways

  Strict Design and Other Rules

   Commercial Buildings Also Must Been Design Rules

  Tropical Racetrack – Just Outside Gables Border

  Spanish Villa in Coral Gables

 1924 Venetian Pool – Largest City Pool in USA

  Built by Denman Fink & Pineas Paist at Rock Quarry