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Coconut Grove, FL
Coconut Grove is widely regarded as the oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood in Miami-Dade County, with roots as a settlement predating the city of Miami itself by more than a decade, and that long history has given "the Grove," as it's known locally, a genuinely bohemian, artistic identity distinct from much of the rest of South Florida's newer suburban development. The neighborhood's tree-canopied streets and historic bungalows, many dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, have made it one of the more architecturally varied and lushly landscaped residential areas in the entire Miami metro area, a contrast to the more uniform Mediterranean Revival style found in neighboring Coral Gables. Peacock Park and the adjacent Dinner Key Marina anchor the neighborhood's waterfront, and Coconut Grove's mix of independent bookstores, art galleries, and outdoor cafés has sustained a genuinely artsy commercial character going back to its early-20th-century role as a gathering point for writers, artists, and bohemian expatriates. Coconut Grove's combination of being Miami-Dade's oldest continuously settled neighborhood, a distinctly bohemian and artistic community character, and lush, tree-lined residential streets has made it one of the more historically and culturally distinctive close-in suburbs anywhere in greater Miami.
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Coral Gables, FL
Coral Gables was developed beginning in 1921 by George Merrick as one of the most fully realized examples of the "City Beautiful" planning movement in the United States, laid out with consistent Mediterranean Revival architecture, wide boulevards, and elaborately themed entrance gates and plazas built specifically to evoke the look of a Spanish or Italian coastal town rather than a typical South Florida suburb. The Biltmore Hotel, opened in 1926 as the centerpiece of Merrick's development, remains one of the most architecturally significant hotels in Florida, its distinctive tower modeled on the Giralda bell tower in Seville, and the hotel's pool has at various points held the title of the largest hotel pool in the continental United States. The University of Miami's main campus sits within Coral Gables, giving the city a genuine college-town presence layered on top of its planned-community architectural identity, and city zoning codes still enforce Merrick's original Mediterranean Revival design standards on new construction nearly a century after the city's founding. Coral Gables's combination of one of the most architecturally consistent planned communities in the country, a historically and architecturally significant flagship hotel, and a major research university campus has made it one of the most distinctive and consistently desirable suburbs anywhere in the greater Miami area.
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