The Dade County Courthouse, now known as the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, at 73 West Flagler Street, was constructed from 1925-1928 to the Classical Revival design of A. Ten Eyck Brown. At its completion, the 28-floor, 360-foot courthouse was the tallest building in Florida and south of Baltimore. Construction had to be temporarily halted at ten stories as the building sunk into the ground and the foundation pilings had to be set deeper, necessitating additional cement supports in the basement.
Initially, it served as both the Dade County Courthouse and the Miami City Hall. Jail cells occupied the top nine floors because these heights offered "maximum security" and were considered escape proof. In 1934 a prisoner housed on the twenty-first floor, picked the lock of his jail cell window and used a fire hose to lower himself to freedom. In the years following, more than 70 prisoners escaped from this so-called secure prison.
Today, the Dade County Courthouse, provides offices, chambers and courtrooms for the clerks and judiciary assigned to the Circuit and County Civil Court and the Family Court.
National Register #88002983 (1989)
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The Flagler Building, at 223 East Flager Street.
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This bust of General Jose de San Martin, sculpted by Juan Carlos Ferraro in 1978, was originally located in Bayfront Park but relocated in 1990 to a parking median on East Biscayne Boulevard between East Flagler Street and SE !st Street.
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This bust of Simón Bolívar, sculpted by Carlos Puig in 1973, was originally located in Bayfront Park but relocated in 1990 to a parking median on East Biscayne Boulevard between East Flagler Street & NE 1st Street.
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Ponte Palacios y Blanco (1783 - 1830) was a leader of several independence movements throughout South America, collectively known as Bolívar's War. Credited with leading the fight for independence in what are now the countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia, he is revered as a hero in these countries and throughout much of the rest of Latin America.
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Male Torso, located in Bayfront Park, was sculpted in 1992 by Fernando Botero.
Bayfront Park is a 32-acre public space in Downtwon Florida along Biscayne Bay. Originally constructed in 1924 to the design of Warren Henry Manning, it officially opened in March, 1925. Beginning in 1980, it underwent a major redesign by Japanese-American modernist artist and landscape architect, Isamu Noguchi. Today, Bayfront Park is maintained by the Bayfront Park Management Trust, a limited agency of the city of Miami.
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