Historic Wisconsin Avenue Commercial District

Begun by flour millers to capture the trade of local wheat farmers, this central shopping district was established near the mills at the heart of the city. Built by the emerging merchant class during the paper industry's heyday, many of ...

Arts and Artists

Make No Little Plans

Woodrow Wilson Plaza honors President Woodrow Wilson, noted scholar and former president of Princeton University. Located just inside the Ronald Reagan building ahead is the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the nation's memorial to our ...

Appointed Rounds

Make No Little Plans

The imposing Ariel Rios Building opened in 1934 to house the U.S. Post Office Department. Architect William A. Delano, of the New York firm Delano and Aldrich, drew inspiration from Paris and other European cities to ...

Congregation Beth Jacob (Orthodox)

Beth Jacob was the first Jewish congregation founded on Miami Beach (1927) and is its oldest synagogue (1929). It was located well south of 5th Street, the northernmost boundary of where Jews were allowed to settle. In 1936, the congregation ...

Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy of Greater Miami

The first Jewish day school in the Southeast began with six students in 1946; now there are over 500. This site was designed by Morris Lapidus whose commissions include Temple Judea (Coral Gables), Temple Beth El (St. Petersburg), the Lincoln ...

South Beach Historic District

Miami Beach's famed Architectural District contains the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco and Art Moderne buildings in the nation. The square-mile district is bounded by 5th Street to 23rd Street, Lenox Avenue to Ocean Drive. A Jewish woman, Barbara ...

Henri Levy Park and Fountain

This recently restored fountain was named in memory of French-born Henri Levy, developer of the Normandy Isle and Surfside communities in the 1920s. His real estate ventures had to be north of any properties once owned by Carl Fisher, whose ...

Mt. Sinai Medical Center

The imposing Mount Sinai Medical Center is the largest employer in Miami Beach. The hospital was founded after World War II for Jewish doctors who were denied staff privileges in other Dade County facilities. The current campus is located at ...

Temple Moses Sephardic Congregation of Florida (Orthodox)

Sermons are delivered in Spanish at this Cuban-Sephardic congregation. Dedicated in 1980, the synagogue is a copy of a synagogue in Havana that was abandoned by Jews fleeing Castro. Outside, at the corner of Main and Vichy, a plaque commemorates ...

Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University

Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. founded the Wolfsonian museum in 1986 to showcase his own collection of more than 70,000 objects from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries with emphasis on furniture and the decorative and propaganda arts. The collection also ...