Balboa Plaza
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Material Information

Title:
Balboa Plaza
Series Title:
Coral Gables Virtual Historic City
Creator:
City of Coral Gables
Publisher:
Florida International University
Publication Date:
Language:
English
Physical Description:
00:00:33

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Coral Gables
Historic sites
Plazas
Genre:
sound recordings
Spatial Coverage:
Coral Gables
Coordinates:
25.748355112846 x -80.2710762509784

Notes

Scope and Content:
Narration: Balboa Plaza is a grassy street median at the intersection of Coral Way, South Greenway Drive, DeSoto Boulevard and Anderson Road. Designed by George Merrick's uncle, Denman Fink, and landscape architect Frank Button, the site includes a walled fountain that spouts water into a semi circular basin. The decorative limestone structure has end piers with lanterns. This plaza is named for the Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa.
General Note:
Audio from the Coral Gables Virtual Tour describing the history of the Balboa Plaza.

Record Information

Source Institution:
City of Coral Gables
Holding Location:
City of Coral Gables
Rights Management:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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