The Barnacle Historic State Park
Octagonal-roofed pioneer bungalow raised on pilings above a bayfront homestead, later lifted to add a hidden ground floor.
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This guide to The Barnacle Historic State Park in Miami follows Ralph Munroe, a yacht designer whose young wife Eva died of tuberculosis in 1882 not long after their infant daughter, and who kept sailing back to this same stretch of Biscayne Bay for years afterward. You'll hear how he finally bought the land in 1886 and built an octagonal bungalow designed to catch every breeze off the water. Listen for how a growing family later forced an unusual solution to the house's size.
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