Coral Gables Museum
Former Depression-era police and fire station with carved limestone facades, now a civic and history museum.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Coral Gables Museum starts by looking up at carved stone faces above the old fire truck bays on Salzedo Street, firefighters sculpted in 1939 by an artist who exhibited as Jon Keller because juries of her day dismissed women sculptors. You'll hear how the Works Progress Administration built this Mediterranean Revival police-and-fire station during the Depression, with architect Phineas Paist folding a courtroom and jail into the same limestone building. By 1975 the sirens had gone quiet.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Coral Gables City Hall
Curved Mediterranean Revival landmark with a coral limestone facade and a three-tiered clock tower.
Deering Estate
Mediterranean Revival stone mansion built fireproof to guard a millionaire's art collection, on a wild coastal estate.
Historic Opa-locka City Hall
Moorish Revival landmark of domes and minarets, built in nineteen twenty-six as a fantasy city's sales office.
Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU
Restored Art Deco synagogue with a copper dome and eighty stained glass windows, now a museum of Jewish heritage.
Coral Gables Merrick House
Coral rock cottage expanded by hand, its name later given to the city built around it.
Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ
Coral-rock Mediterranean Revival sanctuary built as a memorial to a minister, by his developer son.