Coral Gables Merrick House

This guide to the Merrick House in Coral Gables follows young George Merrick, driving a mule cart of grapefruit into Miami before sunrise at age twelve after his family arrived from New England in 1899. It traces how, when his father's health failed, George took over the family citrus groves while his untrained mother, Althea, sketched a coral rock addition onto their small wooden cottage, quarried from ground that would later become the Venetian Pool. Look for the bronze statue of her in the garden as you listen.