Historic Opa-locka City Hall
Moorish Revival landmark of domes and minarets, built in nineteen twenty-six as a fantasy city's sales office.
This guide to Historic Opa-locka City Hall traces the building back to 1926, when aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss opened a Miami-area city built entirely around the tales of the Arabian Nights, with streets named Sabur Lane and Sultan Avenue and this building as the showpiece sales office. You'll hear how the fantasy cracked within weeks, as Florida's land boom collapsed and a hurricane tore through the barely finished town, and how the building went on to serve as city hall for decades afterward. It also covers the years the building sat empty after 2013, its domes cracking and plaster peeling. Look up at the minarets as you listen for what's happening to them now.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.