Miami Heritage Architecture Photos |
While Miami Beach is famous for it's Art Deco district, few realize that Miami itself has a significant selection of such heritage buildings. |
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| Freedom Tower & American Airlines Arena. | Freedom (former Miami Daily News) Tower (1925) (600 Biscayne Blvd.) (17 floors). Architect: Schultze & Weaver. | Top of Freedom Tower. | Ship weather vane atop Freedom Tower. |
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| Details of Freedom Tower. | Miami-Dade County Courthouse (1928) (73 West Flagler St.) (28 floors). Architect: A. Ten Eyck Brown, August Geiger. On National Register. | Top of Miami-Dade County Courthouse. | Vultures spread wings on pyramidal roof of Miami-Dade County Courthouse. |
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| Vulture approaches cornice of Miami-Dade County Courthouse. | Sculpted details of Miami-Dade County Courthouse. | Greek columns of Miami-Dade County Courthouse. | Upper stories of Miami-Dade County Courthouse. |
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| Alfred I. duPont Building (1937-9) (169 E Flagler St.). Style: Art Deco. Architect: Marsh & Saxelbye. On National Register. | Art Deco roofline of Alfred I. duPont Building. | Alfred I. duPont Building over Olympia Theater Office Building. | Olympia Theater (1925) (174 E Flagler St.). Architect: John Eberson. On National Register. |
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| Olympia Theater balcony detail. | Olympia Theater window surround detail. | Huntington Building (1925) (168 SE 1st St.). Architect: Louis Kamper with Pfeiffer & O'Reilly. On National Register. | Huntington Building details. |
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| Warrior with sword atop Huntington Building. | Columns & textures of Huntington Building. | Sculpted face on Huntington Building. | Ingraham Building (1926) (25 SE 2nd Ave.). Architect: Schultze & Weaver. On National Register. |
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| Ingraham Building upper story details. | Security Building dome + Mansard roof with portholes. | Security Building (1926) (117 NE 1st Ave.). Architect: Robert Greenfield. On National Register. | Security Building facade details. |
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| Detail of Old U.S. Post Office & Courthouse (1912-4) (100 NE 1st Ave.). Architect: Oscar Wenderoth. On National Register. | Dade-Commonwealth Building (139 NE First St.). | Eagles sculpted on Dade-Commonwealth Building. | Eagle sculpted on Dade-Commonwealth Building. |
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| Classical relief sculpted on Dade-Commonwealth Building. | Eagle with seahorses sculpted on 122 NE First St. | Eagle with Spanish sailing ship sculpted on 122 NE First St. | Eagle plus woman with anchor & propeller sculpted on 122 NE First St. |
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| Entrance archway of 122 NE First St. | Yellow & blue detail of heritage building on First Street. | Sears, Roebuck Tower (1929) (1300 Biscayne Blvd.). Style: Art Deco. Architect: Nimmons, Carr, & Wright. On National Register. | Statue of Juan Ponce de Leon, explorer of Florida, in Bayfront Park. |
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| Statue of Simon Bolivar, liberator of South America, in Bayfront Park. |
All photos on this page are originals by & copyrighted by Jim Steinhart. All rights reserved. Permission required to use. |