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Historical note:The hotel was designed by Anton Skislewicz and built in 1939 at 940 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach. With its cruise liner-like central tower, the Breakwater Hotel reflects the nautical aesthetic of the Streamline Moderne style that was popular during the time of its construction.
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Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables est. 1925, pop. 50K
• inspired by 18th c. French rural architecture • designed by 3 NY-based architects: Frank Forster (1886-1948), co-author of "Country Houses", designed the farm-styled homes • Edgar Albright (1899-1971), & Philip Lippincott Goodwin (1885-1958), co-author of "French Provincial Architecture" (1924), designed the rustic style residences • photos of Goodwin Place, Philip L. Goodwin's Long Island home
• homes open country-style onto large backyards • designated French 18th Century Village Historic District by City of Coral Gables, 1989
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables est. 1925, pop. 50K
• inspired by 18th c. French rural architecture • designed by 3 NY-based architects: Frank Forster (1886-1948), co-author of "Country Houses", designed the farm-styled homes • Edgar Albright (1899-1971), & Philip Lippincott Goodwin (1885-1958), co-author of "French Provincial Architecture" (1924), designed the rustic style residences • photos of Goodwin Place, Philip L. Goodwin's Long Island home
• homes open country-style onto large backyards • designated French 18th Century Village Historic District by City of Coral Gables, 1989
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables est. 1925, pop. 50K
• inspired by 18th c. French rural architecture • designed by 3 NY-based architects: Frank Forster (1886-1948), co-author of "Country Houses", designed the farm-styled homes • Edgar Albright (1899-1971), & Philip Lippincott Goodwin (1885-1958), co-author of "French Provincial Architecture" (1924), designed the rustic style residences • photos of Goodwin Place, Philip L. Goodwin's Long Island home
• homes open country-style onto large backyards • designated French 18th Century Village Historic District by City of Coral Gables, 1989
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables est. 1925, pop. 50K
• village consists of 5 houses designed by New York-born Palm Beach Architect Marion Sims Wyeth (1889–1982), graduate of École des Beaux-Arts, Paris • Cape Dutch designs patterned after 17th-18th c. colonial South African farmhouses • history of Cape Dutch architecture
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables est. 1925, pop. 50K
• inspired by 18th c. French rural architecture • designed by 3 NY-based architects: Frank Forster (1886-1948), co-author of "Country Houses", designed the farm-styled homes • Edgar Albright (1899-1971), & Philip Lippincott Goodwin (1885-1958), co-author of "French Provincial Architecture" (1924), designed the rustic style residences • photos of Goodwin Place, Philip L. Goodwin's Long Island home
• homes open country-style onto large backyards • designated French 18th Century Village Historic District by City of Coral Gables, 1989
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
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The Bank of England 1914-21 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM
• Burdines founded by William Murrah Burdine (1843-1911), former Confederate Army 2nd Lt. and Civil War POW from Itawamba County, MS
• W.M. Burdine & Son opened 1,250 sq. ft. dry goods store at this location c. 1900 • Roddy Burdine took over, 1911, replaced store with 5-story building, 1912 • Miami's 1st skyscraper, 1st steel beam construction & 1st elevator • 6-story building added next to existing one, 1925 • canopied rooftop restaurant added, c. 1927 • "Sunshine Fashions" slogan copyrighted, 1929
• $1.5MM art deco remodling in 1938 designed by Miami architects Edwin L. Robertson (1888-1953) and J.R. Weber, who also designed two additions and a skybridge, 1946 -Burdine's: Sunshine Fashions & the Florida Store, Seth H. Bramson, 2012 • Burdines brand extinguished (RIP), 6 March, 2005, replaced by New York's Macy's - vintage photos
• rooftop carnival rides & a 3-story high animated neon Santa on the skybridge became a Miami Christmas tradition • Burdines Hibiscus Tea Room a beloved Miami institution, remembered for Snow Queen (girls) and Clown (boys) ice cream desserts
• on 11 Mar, 1960, African-American Reverend Edward T. Graham (d. 1987), pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in nearby Overtown (Colored Town), attempted a sit-in at Flagler St Burdines with six other clergymen. Police prohibited them from entering. Under threat of a boycot of downtown stores, city leaders negotiated settlement to open all downtown stores to African Americans. • video (6:03)
• Burdines in Wikipedia • Downtown Miami Historic District, National Register 05001356, 2005
The Bank of England 1914-21 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM
R • McCrory Building (early 1900s), originally 50-room McCrory Hotel managed by J. G. Urmey • open year round • photos: 1926 & 1928 • entire building converted to McCrory’s 5 and 10 Cent Store, 1936 • façade altered, store took over adjoining property behind it giving it an entrance on SE 1st St • had typical downtown arcaded walkway
L • W.T. Grant Building (1938), façade substantially altered • 1950 photo of E. Flagler St showing both bldgs.
• both stores were sites of historic CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) civil rights actions led by Dr. John O. Brown, Sr. (1922-2007) • although sit-ins targeting racial segregation already staged at St. Louis, MO & Charleston, WV, South's first sit-in occurred at the downtown Miami W.T. Grant building on the left
• in Miami, African-Americans were permitted to eat at stand-up sections of counters but not at main sections with stools • on 29, April, 1959, 20 African-American & white CORE members sat down at Grant's lunch counter & remained after service refused • The Civil Rights Movement & the Black Experience in Miami -U. of Miami
• survey by local TV commentator outside Grant's suggested Miami ready for change • 98 of 100 white participants had no objection to African-Americans being served seated, & claimed to be unaware of the law that prohibited it • during sit-ins at Grant's 5 mos. later, white customers casually took seats next to interracial groups sitting-in • according to CORE, white customers showed little hostility with just a few making anti-black or anti-Semitic remarks. -Cracking the Color Line, CORE
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables one of 1st planned communities in US
• designed by Miami Architects John Skinner (1893-1972) and Coulton Skinner (1891-1963) • purchased by U. of Miami, 1935, became fraternity row • used as army barracks, WWI • now privately owned
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
The Bank of England 1914-21 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
[GOT EDGE? TALKING POINTS FOR WEEKEND PARTIES IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST--THE FETISH FOR TABOOS: HOLLYWOOD NICKEL? Outside The Box Series-Vision-Pitch To LOST Writers (For Example--& A-List Peers). With HBO Or Netflix Or Amazon DuxInnaRow (Production, Casting, Acting, Promotion...) In Such Hands, With Tweakage, Would Alien Anonymous Fail?--Rhetorical Question: Of COURSE Not...]
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THE SECOND SIMULTANEOUS GLOBAL SCREEN-HACK:
"GROWING MEASURE" OF SPONTANEOUS "AUDIENCE HEALINGS" SEEN, RASH OF THEORIES Continue To "Tilt @ The Sudden Windmill" Of The Greatest Shared Mystery In Human History. . .
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"SMALL WONDER WE SHOULD CHOOSE THIS MEDIUM...Human Congregation, Seated In The Dark Of Theaters, Virtually Hushed, Receptive: Perfect..."
--Alien Anonymous
www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/8687532011/
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FIRST [SCREEN HACK / 'OVERRIDE'] CONTACT
ALIEN ANONYMOUS--SERIES VISION:
POV: Bold-Stroked...
SO: you're in a theater, 40 minutes into, say, a 'romantic comedy'...
SUDDENLY: PALEOLITHIC cave painters appear on screen @ work on the most breathtaking mural ever seen...no explanation...an ineffable gravitas, a virtually palpable sense of history alive, including even (widely reported) the scent of smoke and human sweat...
FOR 12 INEXPLICABLE MINUTES...speaking in a language never heard by modern humanity, one artist even apparently making a joke that elicits loud collective laughter echoing through invisible chambers of an unknown cave (the location soon after discovered, further removing the prospect of a grand hoax & emphasizing a non-human intelligence behind it)
...SOME of the (unknowingly global) audience is intrigued and even mesmerized, others, after a minute or two, irritated, descend across time-zones (but mostly PST, West Coast U.S) to multiplex lobbies to complain, demand an explanation, what'-s-this-TRAILER doing interrupting what-I-Paid-To-SEE, etc...
WELL who knew? it's FIRST CONTACT...but nothing follows for weeks...as the world rocks in the vast roll of a wholly unforeseen Sea Change...
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SCREEN HACK 3:
www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/8943207179/
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HUMANITY'S FIRST COLLECTIVE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE?
FOR THE RECORD:
"...THE WORLD WILL BE BESIDE ITSELF--
THERE WILL BE FEAR...SHOCK...MYSTERY...AWE...REVERENCE...HILARITY...
NEW RELIGIOUS DIVIDES, THRILLING SOLIDARITY, ASTONISHING 'FAULT-LINES' THROUGH EVERY ESTABLISHED POWER-BASE,
ROBUST & UNPREDICTABLE SOCIAL UPHEAVAL
ACROSS THE GLOBE.
MEANWHILE, INCREASINGLY 'FORWARD-LEANING' 'COMPETITION' AMONG HOLLYWOOD'S MOST ILLUSTRIOUS "CANDIDATES" FOR "DIRECTOR'S CUT"
WILL REDEFINE OLD FRIENDSHIPS & RIVALRIES...
AND YES, HOW COULD IT BE OTHERWISE?--
THERE WILL BE DINOSAURS..."
--Wyatt Matturs
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FUN FACT: ALIEN ANONYMOUS--PITCH & ROLL--A SEMI-GRAPHIC NOVELLA Produced In A Reality That Includes {WAIT-For-it} ..."ETERNITY!"
--Random-Sequence Episode 'Flashcards' In The Downscroll
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FACEBOOK PAGED @ PARALLEL UNIVERSAL PRESENTS ALIEN ANONYMOUS Movie.Series.Reality www.facebook.com/pages/Parallel-Universal-Presents-Alien-...
FLICKR POOLED @ PARALLEL UNIVERSAL PRESENTS: ALIEN ANONYMOUS www.flickr.com/groups/2227183@N25
PAUSE-AS-NEEDED, CONTEMPLATE AS SPIRIT MOVES:
ALL-IN FLOW-GO---FULL-SCREEN SLIDE SHOW: www.flickr.com/groups/2227183@N25/pool/show/
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The Bank of England 1914-21 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
THE ACADEMY RESPONDS TO ALIEN ANONYMOUS: www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/9070413572/
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"SMALL WONDER WE SHOULD CHOOSE THIS MEDIUM...Human Congregation, Seated In The Dark Of Theaters, Virtually Hushed, Receptive: Perfect..."
--Alien Anonymous
www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/8687532011/
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ALIEN ANONYMOUS SERIES LOGLINE:
NOT Your Father's 'First Contact'!
THEY LANDED ON SCREEN...
In Our Consciousness...Through A Cave Mural
AN IMPOSSIBLE SCENE
From Human History
Would Prove Their Means
To A Protean End...
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POV: Bold-Stroked
SO: you're in a theater, 40 minutes into, say, a 'romantic comedy'...
SUDDENLY: PALEOLITHIC cave painters appear on screen @ work on the most breathtaking mural ever seen...no explanation...an ineffable gravitas, a virtually palpable sense of history alive, including even (widely reported) the scent of smoke and human sweat...
FOR 12 INEXPLICABLE MINUTES...speaking in a language never heard by modern humanity, one artist even apparently making a joke that elicits loud collective laughter echoing through invisible chambers of an unknown cave (the location soon after discovered, further removing the prospect of a grand hoax & emphasizing a non-human intelligence behind it)
...SOME of the (unknowingly global) audience is intrigued and even mesmerized, others, after a minute or two, irritated, descend across time-zones (but mostly PST, West Coast U.S) to multiplex lobbies to complain, demand an explanation, what'-s-this-TRAILER doing interrupting what-I-Paid-To-SEE, etc...
WELL who knew? it's FIRST CONTACT...but nothing follows for weeks...as the world rocks in the vast roll of a wholly unforeseen Sea Change...
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HUMANITY'S FIRST COLLECTIVE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE?
FOR THE RECORD:
"...THE WORLD WILL BE BESIDE ITSELF:
THERE WILL BE FEAR...SHOCK...MYSTERY...AWE...REVERENCE...HILARITY...NEW RELIGIOUS DIVIDES, THRILLING SOLIDARITY, ASTONISHING 'FAULT-LINES' THROUGH EVERY ESTABLISHED POWER-BASE,
ROBUST & UNPREDICTABLE SOCIAL UPHEAVAL ACROSS THE GLOBE.
MEANWHILE, INCREASINGLY 'FORWARD-LEANING' 'COMPETITION' AMONG HOLLYWOOD'S MOST ILLUSTRIOUS "CANDIDATES" FOR "DIRECTOR'S CUT"
WILL REDEFINE OLD FRIENDSHIPS & RIVALRIES...
AND YES, HOW COULD IT BE OTHERWISE?--
THERE WILL BE DINOSAURS..."
--Wyatt Matturs
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"THE KIDS WERE FIGHTING AGAIN OVER WHICH ONES TO SHOW..."
--"WELL, RIGHT NOW [REDACTED] APPEARS TO BE GAINING GROUND--THEY--YOU! DAMMIT EVERYONE NEEDS TO STOP ASSUMING I'LL BE CHOSEN OKAY!?...SEEMS THERE'S A NEW "FRONT-RUNNER" EVERY F'N WEEK...OR HAVEN'T YOU NOTICED?!"
"FINE WITH ME IF YOU DON'T GET IT! NO ONE HAS ANY IDEA WHAT'S IN STORE FOR WHO DOES...MAYBE WE'D NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN...{sobbing...}
ADD TO THE MYRIAD UNCHARTED FAMILY, PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL "TENSIONS", OBVIOUS COSMIC GRAVITAS & "HIGH GLOBAL ANXIETY" IN THE 'FACELESS FACE' OF "THE DEEPEST SHARED MYSTERY IN HUMAN HISTORY [Second Only To Consciousness Itself]
--A MEASURE OF DECIDEDLY UNUSUAL "COMIC" POSSIBILITIES?
"PRESSURE" FROM POTUS ON PAMPAS [President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences] you THINK?
Oh, and don't forget the Fear & FURY Of Wingnut Nation! I.e., the Hollywood Elite: effete Godless Librals empowered to designate WHO will have 'Facetime' w/ Alien Anonymous & WORSE: be the ULTIMATE DECIDER on the content of THE GREATEST 'MOVIE' EVER MADE! The first HUMALIAN 'Producer'/'Director' Collaboration In, And ON: The History Of The Planet Earth...
well...too bad there's no Big Egos to Clash & Bang...
But the humility that Wealth, Position & Power are known for, from politics to entertainment 'titans', etc, would of course render implausible such otherwise VOLCANIC & "multifarious" fireworks, no?
THE ACADEMY RESPONDS TO ALIEN ANONYMOUS: www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/9070413572/
FINAL SEASON: In The Word Was The Beginning bit.ly/1egsr3H
TRUTHY IN THE SKY w/ DIAMONDS bit.ly/1wiom5x
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FUN FACT: PITCH & ROLL--ALIEN ANONYMOUS--A SEMI-GRAPHIC NOVELLA Produced In A Reality That Includes {WAIT-For-it} ..."ETERNITY!"
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FACEBOOK PAGED @ PARALLEL UNIVERSAL PRESENTS ALIEN ANONYMOUS Movie.Series.Reality www.facebook.com/pages/Parallel-Universal-Presents-Alien-...
FLICKR POOLED @ PARALLEL UNIVERSAL PRESENTS: ALIEN ANONYMOUS www.flickr.com/groups/2227183@N25
PAUSE-AS-NEEDED, CONTEMPLATE AS SPIRIT MOVES:
ALL-IN FLOW-GO---FULL-SCREEN SLIDE SHOW: www.flickr.com/groups/2227183@N25/pool/show/
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Memorial to Fallen Colleagues 1914-18 available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM
• Burdines founded by William Murrah Burdine (1843-1911), former Confederate Army 2nd Lt. and Civil War POW from Itawamba County, MS
• W.M. Burdine & Son opened 1,250 sq. ft. dry goods store at this location c. 1900 • Roddy Burdine took over, 1911, replaced store with 5-story building, 1912 • Miami's 1st skyscraper, 1st steel beam construction & 1st elevator • 6-story building added next to existing one, 1925 • canopied rooftop restaurant added, c. 1927 • "Sunshine Fashions" slogan copyrighted, 1929
• $1.5MM art deco remodling in 1938 designed by Miami architects Edwin L. Robertson (1888-1953) and J.R. Weber, who also designed two additions and a skybridge, 1946 -Burdine's: Sunshine Fashions & the Florida Store, Seth H. Bramson, 2012 • Burdines brand extinguished (RIP), 6 March, 2005, replaced by New York's Macy's - vintage photos
• rooftop carnival rides & a 3-story high animated neon Santa on the skybridge became a Miami Christmas tradition • Burdines Hibiscus Tea Room a beloved Miami institution, remembered for Snow Queen (girls) and Clown (boys) ice cream desserts
• on 11 Mar, 1960, African-American Reverend Edward T. Graham (d. 1987), pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in nearby Overtown (Colored Town), attempted a sit-in at Flagler St Burdines with six other clergymen. Police prohibited them from entering. Under threat of a boycot of downtown stores, city leaders negotiated settlement to open all downtown stores to African Americans. • video (6:03)
• Burdines in Wikipedia • Downtown Miami Historic District, National Register 05001356, 2005
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables est. 1925, pop. 50K
• inspired by 18th c. French rural architecture • designed by 3 NY-based architects: Frank Forster (1886-1948), co-author of "Country Houses", designed the farm-styled homes • Edgar Albright (1899-1971), & Philip Lippincott Goodwin (1885-1958), co-author of "French Provincial Architecture" (1924), designed the rustic style residences • photos of Goodwin Place, Philip L. Goodwin's Long Island home
• homes open country-style onto large backyards • designated French 18th Century Village Historic District by City of Coral Gables, 1989
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
The Bank of England 1939-45 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
The Bank of England 1914-21 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables est. 1925, pop. 50K
• village consists of 5 houses designed by New York-born Palm Beach Architect Marion Sims Wyeth (1889–1982), graduate of École des Beaux-Arts, Paris • Cape Dutch designs patterned after 17th-18th c. colonial South African farmhouses • history of Cape Dutch architecture
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
The Bank of England 1914-21 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
The Bank of England 1914-21 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables one of 1st planned communities in US
• designed by Miami Architects John Skinner (1893-1972) and Coulton Skinner (1891-1963) • purchased by U. of Miami, 1935, became fraternity row • used as army barracks, WWI • now privately owned
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
The Bank of England 1939-45 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
The Bank of England 1939-45 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
The Bank of England 1939-45 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
First World War Service Records 1914-19 available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England
First World War Service Records 1914-19 available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England
Committee for Lawsuits Minutes 1802-1908 available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England
First World War Service Records 1914-19 available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England
The Bank of England 1939-45 (Unpublished War History) available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England Archive
First World War Service Records 1914-19 available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England
Committee of Treasury Minutes 1779-1910 available on www.bankofengland.co.uk/archive/Pages/digitalcontent/arch...
Bank of England
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM
• Burdines founded by William Murrah Burdine (1843-1911), former Confederate Army 2nd Lt. and Civil War POW from Itawamba County, MS
• W.M. Burdine & Son opened 1,250 sq. ft. dry goods store at this location c. 1900 • Roddy Burdine took over, 1911, replaced store with 5-story building, 1912 • Miami's 1st skyscraper, 1st steel beam construction & 1st elevator • 6-story building added next to existing one, 1925 • canopied rooftop restaurant added, c. 1927 • "Sunshine Fashions" slogan copyrighted, 1929
• $1.5MM art deco remodling in 1938 designed by Miami architects Edwin L. Robertson (1888-1953) and J.R. Weber, who also designed two additions and a skybridge, 1946 -Burdine's: Sunshine Fashions & the Florida Store, Seth H. Bramson, 2012 • Burdines brand extinguished (RIP), 6 March, 2005, replaced by New York's Macy's - vintage photos
• rooftop carnival rides & a 3-story high animated neon Santa on the skybridge became a Miami Christmas tradition • Burdines Hibiscus Tea Room a beloved Miami institution, remembered for Snow Queen (girls) and Clown (boys) ice cream desserts
• on 11 Mar, 1960, African-American Reverend Edward T. Graham (d. 1987), pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in nearby Overtown (Colored Town), attempted a sit-in at Flagler St Burdines with six other clergymen. Police prohibited them from entering. Under threat of a boycot of downtown stores, city leaders negotiated settlement to open all downtown stores to African Americans. • video (6:03)
• Burdines in Wikipedia • Downtown Miami Historic District, National Register 05001356, 2005
The Essex House, designed by Henry Hohauser in 1938, is located at 1001 Collins Avenue (Miami Beach, Fla.). The
porthole windows and smokestack-like neon tower give this building the fantastic air of a landlocked ocean liner.
historymiamiarchives.org/guides/index.php?p=digitallibrar...
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables est. 1925, pop. 50K
• inspired by 18th c. French rural architecture • designed by 3 NY-based architects: Frank Forster (1886-1948), co-author of "Country Houses", designed the farm-styled homes • Edgar Albright (1899-1971), & Philip Lippincott Goodwin (1885-1958), co-author of "French Provincial Architecture" (1924), designed the rustic style residences • photos of Goodwin Place, Philip L. Goodwin's Long Island home
• homes open country-style onto large backyards • designated French 18th Century Village Historic District by City of Coral Gables, 1989
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables est. 1925, pop. 50K
• inspired by 18th c. French rural architecture • designed by 3 NY-based architects: Frank Forster (1886-1948), co-author of "Country Houses", designed the farm-styled homes • Edgar Albright (1899-1971), & Philip Lippincott Goodwin (1885-1958), co-author of "French Provincial Architecture" (1924), designed the rustic style residences • photos of Goodwin Place, Philip L. Goodwin's Long Island home
• homes open country-style onto large backyards • designated French 18th Century Village Historic District by City of Coral Gables, 1989
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables est. 1925, pop. 50K
• inspired by 18th c. French rural architecture • designed by 3 NY-based architects: Frank Forster (1886-1948), co-author of "Country Houses", designed the farm-styled homes • Edgar Albright (1899-1971), & Philip Lippincott Goodwin (1885-1958), co-author of "French Provincial Architecture" (1924), designed the rustic style residences • photos of Goodwin Place, Philip L. Goodwin's Long Island home
• homes open country-style onto large backyards • designated French 18th Century Village Historic District by City of Coral Gables, 1989
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM • Coral Gables est. 1925, pop. 50K
• village consists of 5 houses designed by New York-born Palm Beach Architect Marion Sims Wyeth (1889–1982), graduate of École des Beaux-Arts, Paris • Cape Dutch designs patterned after 17th-18th c. colonial South African farmhouses • history of Cape Dutch architecture
• city of Coral Gables (1925) created by Duxbury, MA transplant George E. Merrick (1886–1942) on family's 3K acre plantation • Merrick's vision of a "Riviera of the Tropics" influenced by City Beautiful Movement • $100MM one of the 1st planned communities in US
• unifying theme was "castles in Spain made real," expressed in "Mediterranean Revival" architecture, a term said to have been coined by Merrick cousin, architect H. George Fink (1891-1975) • the French/Italian inspired architecture was, “a combination of what seemed best in each, with an added touch of gaiety to suit
the Florida mood.” -George Merrick
• Merrick's team: architects, landscape planner, artistic advisor, real estate officer, engineers • Supervisor of Color Phineas Paist (1873-1937) became supervising architect, responsible for ensuring aethetic consistency through codes, established Board of Architects Review Panel that still functions • Paist bio • Phineas Paist & the Architecture of Coral Gables (pdf)
• opened with strong sales, Merrick invested profits in expansion, founded U. of Miami • for unknown reasons, Merrick decided to diverge from consistent Mediterranean aesthetic at peak of land boom in 1925 • sold former OH governor Meyers Y. Cooper (1873-1958) hundreds of acres for express purpose of building houses/villages in traditional designs of other states, nations • goal was authenticity, not imitation, each of 14 planned villages to be designed by architect familiar with chosen style
• "Seven Miami architects and five New York architects are uniting in working out the details of the great planning of house construction. Thirteen styles are being used, drawn from various regions and nations which harmonize with the Mediterranean style now in use." -Meyers Y. Cooper • before 1926 Great Miami Hurricane & land bust ended construction, 7 villages completed: Dutch South African, Chinese, French Normandy, Florida Pioneer/Colonial, French Country, French City, Italian • fewer than 80 of the 1000 planned residences built
• Florida Land Bust broke Merrick, removed from Coral Gables commission, moved to Matacumbe Key, to run wife's resort • returned to Gables to be county postmaster 2 yrs. before death
1945 photo • Villages of Coral Gables -The Devoted Classicist • Remnants of a Dream in Coral Gables -Global Site Plans • George Merrick Villages -Bittrex