George Merrick, Son of the South Wind

George Merrick, Son of the South Wind
Title George Merrick, Son of the South Wind PDF eBook
Author Arva Moore Parks
Publisher University Press of Florida
Pages 398
Release 2015-11-03
Genre History
ISBN 0813059518

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The story of developers selling off the Sunshine State is as old as the first railroad tracks laid across the peninsula. But seldom do we hear about the men who actually built a better Florida. In George Merrick, Son of the South Wind, South Florida historian Arva Moore Parks recounts George Merrick's quest to distinguish himself from the legions of developers who sought only profit. Helping to create the land boom of the 1920s, Merrick transformed his family's citrus grove just outside of Miami into one of the finest planned communities: the "master suburb" of Coral Gables. With a team of architects and city planners, he built homes for the growing middle class in the Mediterranean Style using local stone, and he invested in public infrastructure by designing and building parks and pools, trolley lines and waterways. He pledged land for a library and the university that would become the University of Miami. Hailed in national publications as a visionary, Merrick was green before green, a New Urbanist before the movement even had a name. As Coral Gables and Merrick prospered, he reinvested in education, affordable housing, and other progressive causes. But the Great Depression ravaged Miami, and Merrick's idealism cost him his fortune. He died with an estate worth less than $400. With unprecedented access to the Merrick family and mining a treasure trove of Merrick’s personal letters, documents, speeches, and manuscripts, Parks presents the remarkable story of George Merrick and the development of one of the nation’s most iconic planned cities.

Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office

Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Title Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher
Pages 1418
Release 1926
Genre American drama
ISBN

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Catalogue of Copyright Entries

Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Title Catalogue of Copyright Entries PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 1418
Release 1926
Genre American literature
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The Bookman

The Bookman
Title The Bookman PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 688
Release 1921
Genre Book collecting
ISBN

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series
Title Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher
Pages 626
Release 1910
Genre
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Bubble in the Sun

Bubble in the Sun
Title Bubble in the Sun PDF eBook
Author George B. Tindall
Publisher New Word City
Pages 19
Release 2014-08-19
Genre History
ISBN 161230799X

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In the 1920s, America was afflicted with Miami Madness as speculators and would-be moguls flocked to Florida to make a fortune in real-estate. Here, in this short-form book from award-winning author George B. Tindall, is the story of the greatest land boom in American history.

Joseph W. Young, Jr., and the City Beautiful

Joseph W. Young, Jr., and the City Beautiful
Title Joseph W. Young, Jr., and the City Beautiful PDF eBook
Author Joan Mickelson
Publisher McFarland
Pages 222
Release 2013-01-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0786468807

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Joseph W. Young, Jr., was acknowledged as one of the five or six major city builders in boomtime Florida. From practically nothing in 1920 he created Hollywood By-the-Sea with an elegant Beaux Arts plan of circles and lakes, calling it a "City Beautiful," an ideal first propounded by Daniel Burnham of Chicago. Young had a rare talent for publicity and a knack for making and spending millions--supported by an immense personal charm that is still remembered decades after his death. This first full biography of Young covers his start as city builder in turn-of-the-century California where new cities blossomed and were ballyhooed, his move to Indianapolis, home of Carl Fisher who developed Miami Beach, his creation of Hollywood and Port Everglades, and his move to his Adirondack resort, ending with his dreams to expand Hollywood, fulfilled after his early death.