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    Hialeah Entrance Plaza - Soap spiking of fountain 09/10/09

    Hialeah Entrance Plaza

    4.0(3 reviews)
    2.3 mi

    Hialeah Entrance Plaza is one of the landmarks in the City of Hialeah. I have to say when it was…read morefirst restored in 2005 (for a whopping $411,000), I didn't like it. It grew on me as time progressed and I always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with it. Then again that exemplifies my whole experience being a born and bred Hialeahan. Hialeah's motto is the "city of progress", but being born and raised here I can tell you that the city and its people can get a bad rap from the rest of the county, state and heck even sometimes the rest of the country. Sometimes to be fair to the detractors, rightly so, other times very unfairly. Its to the point that the city is mocked as the land of "agua, fango y factorias", or water, mud and factories. There have been times where I have been judged for being from Hialeah. Its a working class/poor area of Miami-Dade County, heavily minority, with a large percentage of its residents who do not speak English. Still, I was born and raised in Hialeah and it has shaped who I am and who I became. In the end, this structure shows Hialeah is more than what its detractors say it is. It is beautiful, well maintained, with a cascading fountain. As an aside, one of my fondest memories of this place was when back in September 10, 2009 some high school student spiked the fountain with soap just before rush hour. I laughed so hard right on my way to work! Like to the story: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/hialeah-fountain-throwing-a-suds-party/2051397/?amp=1 I took pictures myself that I found which are attached. Ahhh sweet memories!

    It's not the Arc de Triomphe but it is the monument that serves as the entrance way to Hialeah. In…read morethe 1980s and 1990s, a coral rock fountain on a grassy patch at SE Fourth Street and Okeechobee was all that stood here. In 2005 the city built the that pale yellow Mediterranean style building that features two sentry towers and a stone fountain on the ground floor at a cost of a $411,848.56. In 2011 the Miami New times listed it as "the worst public works projects in Miami-Dade, where bureaucrats and elected officials take pride in wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on crap residents have little-to-no use for." They site the lack of parking, no sidewalk, and the inability to climb up to the top although there is a staircase on the inside. On occasion pranksters will fill the fountain with soap causing the suds to spill out onto the roadway. Although the New Times may have a point that the fountain was an expensive cost to tax payer, it's final price tag came in twice as much as it's budget, I still like it. It fits nicely in with the Mediterranean Revival theme that was popular in the 1920's when Hialeah was founded. It would however be better if it was more accessible for public use like the entrance ways to Coral Gables.

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    Buena Vista Post Office

    Buena Vista Post Office

    4.5(2 reviews)
    7.1 miDesign District

    For all you people out there like me that crave some History - here is some, and right in the heart…read moreof the Modern Design District. In 2017 the old Historic Buena Vista Post Office building in Miami's Design District sold for $8.1M The historic Buena Vista Post Office building in Miami's Design District just sold for $8.125 million, marking a near-record price per square foot in the redeveloping neighbourhood. The 2,287-square foot building at 4000 Northeast Second Avenue, which was the former site of the Billionaire clothing store, sold for $3,553 per square foot to a New York-based investment group that represents foreign investors, Chariff Realty Group President Lyle Chariff told TRD. The buyers are part of the same group that purchased Power Studios in the Design District from Chariff and his partners in June 2015. Chariff and Steve Budin, CEO of Sportsinfo.com, were the sellers. Chariff said he had a 10 percent stake. They purchased the building for $479,000 in July 2003, meaning it sold for nearly 16 times its purchase price in just under 14 years. Built in 1921 by Buena Vista's original developer David P. Davis as a post office, the neoclassical building sits on a 3,375-square-foot lot.

    Upper Buena Vista is an old neighborhood with a new bohemian vibe. Located south of Little Haiti…read moreand north of the Miami Design District, in the 1890's it was a small village, with the homesteads of cracker immigrants William Gleason and E.L. White from Georgia and North Carolina. Along with Lemon City and Little River, Upper Buena Vista is one of the oldest settlements in Miami. Many of the homes here date to Florida's land bloom years of the 1920's when the first subdivisions were built. Tampa developer and architect David P. Davis partnered with pineapple plantation owner Theodore V. Moore to develop two investment properties in Buena Vista. Davis designed both buildings but he only paid for one while Moore paid for the other. Designed in a masonry vernacular style, Davis' building became the Buena Vista Post Office with neoclassical design elements. Moore's building was built in an L shape around the post office. The south portion of the building was completed in 1922 and the north portion was completed in 1926. Moore gave up his pineapple plantation for commercial development. In the 1930s, he opened the T.V. Moore Furniture Store in his building and both the Buena Vista Post Office and Moore Furniture Building anchored the growing neighborhood. On August 4, 1924, the new town of Buena Vista was incorporated only to be annexed by the City of Miami the next year. At that time the post office ceased operation. The building as since served a variety of purposes through the years including a city hall, municipal courthouse, tire store, insurance office, restaurant, and clothing store. In 2017, the building sold for 8 million dollars. There is a sign on the building that lets you know that this summer it is going to be the luxury Swiss watch maker, Patek Philippe. The Moore building is now an event venue. There is a historic marker detailing the history of the buildings in front of the post office.

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    Muhammad Ali's House - House?

    Muhammad Ali's House

    3.3(3 reviews)
    5.1 miLiberty City

    Muhammad Ali helped make Miami and Miami helped make him. He came to the area after winning gold at…read morethe 1960 Rome Olympics. Back then he was known as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. During his time on south Florida, he lived in many of Miami's neighborhoods, including historic Overtown. It was the end of segregation and the beginning of an integrated society. Ali would eat at Wolfie's, an iconic, 24-hour delicatessen that stood for 60 years at 21st Street and Collins Avenue and he trained at the famous Fifth Street Gym in Miami Beach. All of the greats from the 50's to the 80's worked out there including Roberto Durán, Sugar Ray Leonard, Sugar Ray Robinson. Even all these years later, interest in Muhammed Ali's time in Miami has not waned. Last year Ali was the subject of a photo exhibit at the HistoryMiami Museum. Most of the exhibit showcased him going about his daily life in the ramp up his first fight against Joe Frazier which was dubbed the "The Fight of the Century." Last years film One Night in Miami is a fictionalized account of a February 1964 meeting between Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke in a room at the Hampton House, after Ali's surprise title win over Sonny Liston. Ali won the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Muhammed Ali lived in a modest home on the corner of NW 46 Street and 15 Court in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami. While Ali lived there he had a young neighbor named Nelson Adams who idolized him. Ali kept in touch with Adams throughout his life and inspired by his hero, Adams grew up to be a doctor. Adams used to watch boxing movies outside with his celebrated neighbor. Ali returned to his old home for a visit in 2001 to relive a few memories with the current owners, the Ross family. Muhammed Ali passed away in 2016 at the age of 74. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see." No boxer was greater than Muhammad Ali. What a neat piece of Miami history.

    This is the Former home of Muhammad Ali in Miami. He had a house in Miami's Allapattah…read moreneighbourhood. The modest home is at the corner of NW 46 Street and 15 Court. "It kind of hurt me when I heard about it," said current resident Kevin Ross about the champ's death. Ross has lived his entire life in Ali's home. Ross's parents bought the house from Ali in 1965. His father moved quickly to seal the deal. "Growing up, it was a big experience for me because everyone knew he stayed here," Ross told CBS4 Reporter Donna Rapado. "I had a lot of neighbours around here who lived here when he actually lived here. My friends all knew. So it was like a celebrity-type feeling."

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    El Jardin

    El Jardin

    4.3(3 reviews)
    8.9 mi

    I first saw - and entered El Jardin in 1982/83. At that time it contained the office of Father…read moreRoger Radloff, a Catholic priest and Jungian psychologist which he used in relation to a private practice that he maintained in addition to being the "shrink for the diocese" as he put it. His assistant at that time was Eugene Ritter. I believe Radloff also offered services to students at the adjoining Carrollton School, which owned the gatehouse. As with all Miami revival architecture, El Jardin is at one with the earth, looks organic, and is built with color, shapes and textures as well as stone.

    I went to coconut Grove to see as many historical places as possible, and spotted this one. See…read moreinfo I got from the net regarding it. El Jardin is a house located at 3747 Main Highway in Miami, Florida. It is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. El Jardin is now home to Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart in Miami, Florida. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1974. Built in 1918 along a ridge of oolitic limestone, El Jardin expresses the broad training of its architect, Richard Kiehnel of Kiehnel and Elliott, and the experience of its owner, John Bindley, then president of Pittsburgh Steel. Kiehnel, in a September 1928 article for Tropical Home and Garden, referred to the house as a "progenitor of the Modern Mediterranean style home." Kiehnel relocated to Miami from Pittsburgh and became the architect for many landmark buildings, including the Coral Gables Congregational Church, Miami Senior High, and the Coral Gables Elementary School.

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    Okeechobee MDT Station - landmarks - Updated May 2026

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