Coconut Grove

Coconut Grove in Miami

Villa Vizcaya in Coconut Grove, Miami

Coconut Grove is a neighborhood in the south of the City of Miami in the US state of Florida . Coconut Grove extends southeast of US 1 from N. Prospect Avenue as the southern boundary to the intersection of US 1 and Brickell Avenue, the northern boundary. The western border is formed by Le Jeune Road and the eastern border by Biscayne Bay . Coconut Grove has long been considered the bohemian district of Miami.

Coconut Grove is home to a number of listed buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), including the Plymouth Congregational Church, built in the Spanish Colonial Revival style by Clinton MacKenzie and Phillippe Feliz Rebom in the early 20th century , and the Villa Vizcaya , built 1914–1916 for James Deering (1859–1925), one of the founders of modern Miami. Some of the buildings on the Villa Vizcaya estate were also designed by the architect Clinton MacKenzie (1872–1940). The Villa Vizcaya was donated by the Deering heirs to Miami-Dade County . The authority now operates an art history museum with a botanical garden under the name Vizcaya Museum and Gardens .

history

Coconut Grove, originally written Cocoanut Grove and called "The Grove" for short by the locals, was founded in 1825 and remained independent for 100 years. In 1882 the Englishmen Isabella and Charles Peacock opened their first inn / hotel. At that time, many black workers came from the Bahamas who built their own small district in West Grove. In 1925, Coconut Grove was incorporated into the city of Miami. The Coconut Grove Playhouse opened in 1927. The USA premiere of Waiting for Godot took place here in 1956 .

In the 1930s and 1940s, Coconut Grove was Pan Am's headquarters . The flying boats to South America started here. The terminal is now used as a City Hall. It is one of the few Art Deco buildings in Coconut Grove . A notorious Doors concert took place in one of the hangars in 1969 .

In the 1960s and 70s, Coconut Grove was one of the centers of the hippie movement.

In 1990 the CocoWalk was opened. In this lifestyle center there are some well-known shops and restaurants as well as several cinema halls.

In 2017, two futuristic residential towers (Grove at Grand Bay) designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels were completed. Another major construction project (Grove Park) is by Rem Koolhaas headed.

"The Grove" is known for its immigrants from the Caribbean and their culture, which is still reflected today in various festivals. The most important festival is the "Coconut Grove Arts Festival", which has been taking place since 1964.

Coconut Grove is home to the two-story building of the Coconut Grove Housekeeper's Club, the oldest club for women in Florida. The club was founded in 1891 by Flora McFarlane. Visitors came by boat across the Miami River , and babies could be left in a special crib for the duration of the celebration.

traffic

Coconut Grove is served by three stations on the Miami-Dade Metrorail (Vizcaya, Coconut Grove, Douglas Road). A free bus service (trolley) connects Coconut Grove with the "Miracle Mile" shopping street in Coral Gables and Downtown Miami. Coconut Grove is considered particularly pedestrian-friendly. Most of the streets in Coconut Grove conform to the Miami-Dade County's grid plan . However, the naming is different. So 48th Street becomes Grand Avenue and 32nd Avenue becomes McDonald Street.

Demographic data

31,000 people live in Coconut Grove. The median household income (2010) is $ 72,509. It is significantly higher than that of the entire city of Miami ($ 28,506). However, there is an area along Grand Avenue (from McDonald Street to Dixie Highway) where the conditions are poorer. This "West Grove" has been the target of various attempts at urban renewal for years. For some time now, gentrification has also been taking place here.

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  Coconut Grove Playhouse

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  Coconut Grove graveyard

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  Typical trees

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  View from the Metrorail station

Known residents

• LeBron James , basketball player, Miami Heat (until 2014)
• Christian Slater , actor
• Madonna , 1992-2000
• Sylvester Stallone 1993-1999
• Fred Neil musician
• Robert Frost from 1940 onwards the poet spent the winters in his house south of Coconut Grove
• Martina Navrátilová

Web links

Commons : Coconut Grove, Florida  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Blog with the latest news on Coconut Grove
• Demographic data
• Grove at Grand Bay / Large new construction project
• Report on the West Grove
• Pictures from the story of Coconut Grove

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Florida - Dade County on the National Register of Historic Places. Plymouth Congregational Church, 3429 Devon Road, Miami (inscribed on the NRHP list in 1974, building # 74000615)
2. ↑ Florida - Dade County on the National Register of Historic Places. Vizcaya, also James Deering Estate, 3251 S. Miami Avenue, Miami (added to the NRHP list in 1970, building # 70000181)
3. ^ Witold Rybczynski and Laurie Olin: Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers . University of Pennsylvania Press, Pittsburgh 2007, pp. 36-39, ISBN 0-8122-3951-2
4. ↑ Vizcaya's History ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (the history of the Vizcaya Museum), Vizcaya Museums and Gardens (Engl.)  
5. ↑ Grant Livingston: The Annexation of Coconut Grove , in: Tequesta , The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida, pp. 32–55, Miami, FL 2000 (PDF, English; 21.54 MB)
6. ↑ http://www.miamitodaynews.com/2014/08/13/grove-towers-add-almost-400-condos/
7. ^ Art in the Grove . In: The Miami Hurricane from February 15, 2002
   Homepage of the Coconut Grove Arts Festival ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (Ed.): Florida - A Guide to the Southern-most State . Oxford University Press, New York 1939, pp. 216-218. (Writers Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Florida, sponsored by the State of Florida Department of Public Instruction.)

Coordinates: 25 ° 43 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 80 ° 14 ′ 31.8 ″  W.