National Historic Landmark - Miami Biltmore Hotel

The Miami-Biltmore Hotel and Country Club, one of the most luxurious and modern hotels of its time, opened on January 14, 1926. Designed by the prominent New York architectural firm of Schulze and Weaver, the Miami-Biltmore is Coral Gables most ...

National Historic Landmark- Marjorie Kennan Rawlings House

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House was the home of the acclaimed writer and her first husband, Charles Rawlings, from 1928 to 1953. It was in this house that Rawlings wrote all seven of the books published during her lifetime, including ...

National Historic Landmark - Mar-A-Lago

This sprawling, Mediterranean-style villa, home of Marjorie Merriweather Post, exemplifies the baronial way of life of the wealthy who built mansions in Florida during the Florida land boom of the 1920s.

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National Historic Landmark-Maple Leaf (Passenger Steamer/Wreck)

The sidewheeler Maple Leaf was designed and built in the Marine Railway Shipyard in Kingston, Ontario, and launched in 1851; she worked passenger routes on Lake Ontario prior to being chartered to the U.S. Army in 1862. As an Army ...

National Historic Landmark - Llambias House

Among the few extant structures in Saint Augustine that dates from the first Spanish period, this house reached its final form by 1788. A restored example of organic growth of a dwelling built on a variation of the "St. Augustine ...

National Historic Landmark - Ingham, USCGC

Built in 1936, the 327 foot cutter Ingham is one of two surviving examples of the Secretary-class, a type significant in the U.S. combat response to the German U-Boat threat. Ingham escorted convoys across the North Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Caribbean, ...

National Historic Landmark - Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960), writer, folklorist, and anthropologist, was the most noted black female writer of the mid-20th century. In addition to her four novels, two books of folklore, and an autobiography, Hurston wrote over 50 short stories and essays; ...

National Historic Landmark - Ponce de Leon Hotel

The Hotel Ponce de Leon (Flagler College since 1968) was the first Florida's great winter luxury hotels and the flagship of Henry M. Flagler's railroad-hotel-land development empire in Florida. Henry Flagler made his fortune during the period immediately following the ...

National Historic Landmark - Ernest Hemingway House

Winner of both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for literature, Hemingway lived in this large, eclectic two-story masonry house from 1931 to 1940. Among the works he wrote here is To Have and Have Not. The 1930s swimming pool was ...

National Historic Landmark - Governor Stone (Schooner)

Built in 1877, STONE is the oldest surviving Gulf schooner, a type which was important to maritime commerce of the South and Gulf Coast, where shallows and sandbars made the employment of shoal centerboard schooners essential to the transfer of ...