Coral Gables Museum

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.