Balboa Plaza, Coral Gables, Florida

Permanent Link:

http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI12041719/00001

Material Information

Title:

Balboa Plaza, Coral Gables, Florida

Publication Date:

1924

Language:

English

Physical Description:

10 X 6 in.

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:

Coral Gables (Fla.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Coral Gables (Fla.)--History
Historic sites--Florida
Plazas--Florida--Coral Gables--1920-1930
Urban design

Coordinates:

25.748917 x -80.271031

Notes

General Note:

Balboa Plaza is a grassy street median at the intersection of Coral Way, South Greenway Drive, De Soto Boulevard and Anderson Road. Designed by George Merrick's uncle, Denman Fink, and landscape architect, Frank Button, the site includes a wall fountain that spouts water into a semicircular basin. The decorative limestone structure has end-piers with lanterns. This plaza is named for the Spanish conquistador Vasco Nuñez de Balboa.

General Note:

Caption on recto: "M3338" Caption on verso: "Balboa Plaza, 1924, intersection of Coral Way and South Greenway Drive"

General Note:

(Ownership) Coral Gables Historical Resources Department

Record Information

Source Institution:

Florida International University

Holding Location:

City of Coral Gables

Rights Management:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/

Resource Identifier:

FI12041719

dpSobek Membership

Aggregations:

Coral Gables Memory