Vizcaya: The Italian Palace on Biscayne Bay That Miami Almost Lost
James Deering built a 34-room Italian Renaissance villa on Biscayne Bay in 1916. A century later, Vizcaya is Miami’s most stunning window into the Gilded Age.
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Carl Fisher: The Indiana Daredevil Who Dredged Miami Beach Out of a Mangrove Swamp
He co-founded the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, built the first road across America, then dredged a mangrove island into Miami Beach. Carl Fisher saw the future before anyone else.
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Stiltsville: Miami’s Neighborhood in the Middle of the Ocean
A mile offshore from Miami, a handful of wooden houses stand on stilts above Biscayne Bay with no roads, no bridges, and no land beneath them. Stiltsville is one of Florida’s strangest and most beautiful places.
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Julia Tuttle: The Only Woman to Found a Major American City
In 1891, a widowed Cleveland businesswoman bought 640 acres of Florida wilderness and talked a railroad tycoon into building a city on it. Her name was Julia Tuttle, and Miami exists because of her.
