What are the buildings the Seminole lived in called?

 

(Seminole Dwelling, ca 1887, Credit: Clay MaCauley, HistoryMiami)

 In the early 1800s Creek from Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina started to move into Florida.  The Spanish called them Cimarrones, which means lost ones, or runaways.  This was eventually changed to Seminoles.  When the now Seminoles moved into the Everglades they had to make changes to their homes.  They built structures out of wood and palm fronds with no walls and a raised floor.

 A. Chickees

What are some of Herman Herzog’s Florida paintings?

 

A. “Near Cedar Key,” “The Fox, Near Gainsville,” “Fishing Camp on the Lower Waccasassa River (Florida),” “Near Lake Santa Fe, Alachua County”

(____________________, ca 1832, Credit: Herman Herzog, Collection of Cici and Hyatt Brown)

As Florida was being settled following the Civil War through the 1950s art grew along with the population.  A group of artists started to paint landscapes unique to Florida.  A group now considered by some as a Florida School of painting.  One of the most prolific artists from this group was Herman Herzog. 

-          For more information on Florida Landscape painting visit HistoryMiami to see Reflections: Paintings of Florida 1865-1965, from the Collection of Cici and Hyatt Brown

What were the names of Carl Fisher’s elephants?

 

(Golfer standing on __________, ca 1927, credit: Claud Carson Matlock, HistoryMiami)

 In the 1920s Miami and Miami Beach were experiencing a land boom.  With the land boom different developers had to come up with ways to promote their developments.  Carl Fisher came up with a rather ingenious plan; he bought two elephants to help promote his properties on Miami Beach.  The elephants were often used in parades, openings, and even as golf cadies.

 

A. Carl and Rosie

What is Coral Gables’s nickname?

 

(Biltmore Hotel, ca 1927, credit: Manley Brower, HistoryMiami)

In 1925 George Merrick started planning a community south of Miami.  As one of America’s first planned communities it incorporated Mediterranean Revival style architecture with a South Florida way of life.  The vibrant community of Coral Gables soon grew under the shadow of the show stopping Biltmore Hotel.

 

A. The City Beautiful