Coral Gables Historic Walk

The Douglas Entrance is distinguished by a monumental stone archway designed to frame the passage into the city. Also known as La Puerta del Sol, this structure was created by architects Phineas Paist, Denman Fink, and Walter DeGarmo…

The Coral Gables Museum stands out for its exterior wall sculptures of two firemen and a family, perched above what were once fire truck bays. The building is constructed from oolitic limestone, commonly known as coral rock, and features a…

The three-story limestone building at four hundred five Biltmore Way is easily identified by its central clock tower and deep red clay-tiled roof. Architects Phineas Paist and Harold Steward completed this Mediterranean Revival structure…

The Coral Gables Merrick House is easily identified by its exterior walls made of rough-hewn oolitic limestone, a material quarried from what eventually became the city’s famous Venetian Pool. Located at nine zero seven Coral Way, the…

The Venetian Pool is a massive, four-acre lagoon carved directly into coral rock, defined by its jagged limestone walls, waterfalls, and stone bridges. It was built in nineteen twenty-four as the Venetian Casino, a centerpiece for George…

The Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ is defined by its Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, marked by a bell tower modeled after one in Seville, Spain, and barrel roof tiles imported from Cuba. Completed in nineteen…

The Biltmore Hotel stands out in Coral Gables for its massive, central tower, which was inspired by the medieval Giralda bell tower of the cathedral in Seville. Completed in January of nineteen twenty-six, the hotel was the centerpiece of…