1675-10 Brown's Hotel WED 12 JUN 91
Aristides J. Millas
School of Architecture
University of Miami
P.O. Box 249178
Miami, FL 33124
Dear Dr. Millas,
I enjoyed speaking with you on the phone Monday concerning the Brown Hotel
on Miami Beach. It was good to talk to someone who recognizes the possible
historical significance of this site. I am in the process of preparing an
outline for the article I plan to do on the hotel. Enclosed are several items
that I came across during my research. ' •
I am also including a list of articles appearing in early newspapers •
concerning development on Miami Beach which you may be interested in. Let me
know if you would like copies of any of them. I will probably donate them to
the Historical Museum Library downtown when I finish with them.
The question I an still wondering about is - could Brown's Hotel be the
oldest remaining structure on Miami Beach? If it is, this would give the
building greater historical significance, and if it is the only remaining
building left from 1915, the added significance of being the only building
existing from the year of the^city's incorporation, although it was not built
1 until several months after the actual incorporation date.
I have read the Miami Herald from January 1914 through March 1916 and the
Daily Metropolis (Miami News) from April 1915 through July 13, 1915. I plan to
continue reading the latter at least through October 1916. If there is
anything in this time period you would like me to watch for let me know as I
try to skim all the news concerning the greater Miami area throughout the
papers.
The other thing you mentioned was that you were "mapping" the Beach. Is
this done by means of the Sanborn maps? I have copied and taped together all '
the Sanborn maps for 1920 Homestead and 1911 Ft. Myers. This gives an
excellent perspective of the development of an area. I have 1903 and 1906 , < < : ,
Miami copied and have laid them out on the floor but not cut and pasted them
together. I had been thinking this would make a good project for Miami's 100th? <`,\.,
birthday in 1996, however, I'm not sure about copyright restrictions. Could
the information from the maps be scanned into a PC, cleaned up, edited, and a_;
reprinted on a laser printer and then be pasted together into one huge map? rx
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