MIAMI – Recently I was on assignment in Downtown Miami and I was wanting for a place for a tale we ended up making.
I would up in Fort Dallas Park located behind the James L. Knight Heart and appropriate on the Miami River. I noticed this great previous constructing, painted yellow, and I was rather absolutely sure about what I was seeing but I wished to make confident, so I named Dr. Paul George with the HistoryMiami Museum.
A couple months later on we achieved at the park.
“I was down listed here. I came into this park by mistake, but I seemed up right here and I noticed this yellow constructing, saw the paint, and I puzzled, does it have anything at all point to do with Henry Flagler?” Hank Tester requested George.
“It certainly does. He cherished the color yellow. Very first of all, he created that developing, his men did, in 1897,” stated George.
American industrialist Henry Flagler, who introduced the railroad to Miami, also created the Royal Palm Resort at the mouth of the Miami River, it was painted a brilliant yellow.
“I appeared at a report from 1983 and it showed this setting up or properties like it suitable downtown, all lined up in a row by the hotel,” Tester explained to George.
It turns out the yellow house in the park was a single of at least 30 produced for men and women doing the job on the design of the Royal Palm Lodge, which was created alongside what is now SE 2nd Avenue. Historic reviews explained that Flagler explained he did not his workers living in tents so the properties ended up manufactured. The lease was $22 a thirty day period.
The yellow dwelling was moved to Fort Dallas Park in the 1980s, it is generally referred to as “The Palm Cottage” or “The Flagler Worker’s House.” It is presently at the rear of a short-term fence, padlocked, and in disrepair. The Dade Pine constructing with great bones, at a single time the location of a unsuccessful cafe, has been ready for many years for some sort of rescue.
“Why is it significant for the folks of Miami to know about that distinct creating?” Tester requested George.
“We have so minor left from the beginning and this is the commencing of Miami, the metropolis that nowadays is environment renowned commences a 12 months prior to this constructing was constructed and this constructing was created correct in the core of that foreseeable future metropolis of Miami,” he replied.
George reported that the weathered yellow household is the only setting up left in the downtown region from the Flagler period.
The Metropolis of Miami Recreation and Parks Administers the web site at Fort Dallas Park. When I questioned about its latest standing and strategies for the future the reaction was “no comment at this time.”
Christine Rupp is the Govt Director of the Dade Historic Belief.
“We engaged the Town of Miami. We engaged spot stakeholders, downtown inhabitants, the Flagler Business enterprise Enhancement District, and landscape architects, they had a program for the constructing but are pissed off there is no progress,” claimed Rupp.
She explained there is dollars for restoration.
“The setting up alone could be an excellent people middle, a gallery, it could be a spot for bicycle and strolling excursions to begin,” mentioned Rupp.
“I’ve been common with this making now for more than 40 several years and just sort of waiting for a little something good to materialize to it,” said George.
In the meantime, the Flagler Worker’s Household proceeds to deteriorate in the shadow of the ongoing significant growth in Downtown Miami.
