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When it comes to finding subject properties for this series, the Miami suburb of Coral Gables is the mother lode.
So far, the Biltmore Hotel, the Congregationalist Church and the Venetian Pool have been featured. There are plenty of other worthy buildings in visionary developer George Merrick’s “Miami Riviera,” and the Chinese Compound Village — actually eight distinctive residences — is prime among them.
Merrick developed Coral Gables from 1922 to 1928, after the Florida Land Boom went bust; the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 wrecked Dade County; and Merrick ran out of the considerable personal fortune he amassed in the boom years to keep the city going.
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