Douglas Entrance. "La Puerta del Sol." Coral Gables, Florida

Permanent Link:

http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI12042418/00001

Material Information

Title:

Douglas Entrance. "La Puerta del Sol." Coral Gables, Florida

Language:

English

Physical Description:

3 X 3 in.

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:

Coral Gables (Fla.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Coral Gables (Fla.)--History--Pictorial works
Historic sites--Florida
Urban design

Coordinates:

25.763914 x -80.256371

Notes

General Note:

This grand entrance was originally named after the central plaza in Madrid, La Puerta del Sol (The Gate of the Sun). Altough contruction started in 1925, it was not completed until 1927 at a cost of $1 million. Architects Phineas Paist and Walter De Garmo designed the gateway along with Denman Fink. Cars would enter from Douglas Road or S.W. 8th Street and travel under its archway flanked by buildings containing art galleries, residential apartments and retail space. The declining real estate market halted the grander scale of the original plan to have the complex cover ten acres.

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:

FI12042418

dpSobek Membership

Aggregations:

Coral Gables Memory