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 ...

Preserving the Past

Make No Little Plans

This massive granite building was completed in 1899 to house the U.S. Post Office Department and the busy city post office. Designed by the U.S. Treasury Department architects under Willoughby J. Edbrooke, it was Washington’s first ...

Quackenbush

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William Graham Quackenbush

Orange County, North Carolina

December 12, 1849

March 9, 1903

Laurinburg, North Carolina

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Christian, Scholar, Philanthropist

Twenty One Years

Principal Laurinburg High School

1879-1900

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In recognition of his exalted character, in appreciation of his ennobling influence upon youth.

Erected by a people grateful for his love and ...

Temple Israel of Greater Miami (Reform)

Temple Israel, the first Reform and second-oldest Jewish congregation in Miami, was founded in 1922 and moved here in 1928. The synagogue complex is highly regarded for its architecture. The Nathan and Sophie Gumenick Chapel, dedicated in 1969, was designed ...

WTVJ/Capitol Theater

The Capitol Theater opened in 1926 as the first of the Wometco Theater chain, a company founded by Mitchell Wolfson, Sr., and his brother-in-law, Sidney Meyer. In 1949, the Capitol was converted into the studios of WTVJ, Florida's first TV ...

Blackstone Hotel

Nathan Stone built the Blackstone Hotel in 1930. It provided a place for Jews to stay at a time when "Restricted Clientele" signs were prevalent elsewhere along the Beach. In 1954, under the management of Nathan's son Alfred, the hotel ...

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 ...

Holocaust Memorial

Designed by Kenneth Treister and dedicated in February 1990, the bronze hand, reaching 50 feet skyward and bearing life-size men, women, and children, is visible from blocks away. Visitors can closely view 130 life-size figures, cast in bronze, in the ...

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 ...