OVERTOWN MAP PROJECT Accompanying Map Report NW 20TH STREET BOB HOPE ROAD NW 5TH PLANE NW 4TH COURT NW 4TH AVENUE NW 19TH STREET NW 19TH STREET NW 19TH STREET NW 19TH STREET NW 18TH TERRACE NW 2ND AVENUE NW 1ST PLANE NW 1ST COURT NW 1ST AVENUE NW MIAMI COURT NORTH MIAMI AVENUE NW 18TH STREET NW 8TH AVENUE NW 7TH AVENUE NW 5TH AVENUE NW 18TH STREET AVENUE 3RD NW NW 17TH STREET NW 17TH STREET NW 16TH TERRACE NW 16TH STREET NW 16TH STREET NW 7TH COURT NW 16TH STREET NW 15TH STREET NW 15TH STREET NW 15TH STREET BOB HOPE ROAD NW 14TH TERRACE NW 14TH STREET NW 13TH STREET NW 12TH STREET NW 11TH TERRACE NW 11TH STREET NW 10TH STREET NW 9TH STREET NW 7TH STREET ROAD NW 8TH STREET NW NORTH RIVER DRIVE NW 7TH STREET NW 7TH STREET NW 3RD COURT 3RD NW NW 6TH AVENUE NW 3RD AVENUE NW 5TH AVENUE NW 4TH AVENUE AVENUE 1ST NW NORTH MIAMI AVENUE NW 2ND AVENUE NW 1ST COURT NW SOUTH RIVER DRIVE NW 7TH AVENUE NW 6TH STREET NW 6TH STREET NW 5TH STREET NW 5TH STREET The Office of Community & Civic Engagement in conjunction with University of Miami School of Architecture Center for Urban and Community Design TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 5. Resources a. Vision Statement 6. Appendix b. The Office of Civic and Community Engagement a. Civic Buildings c. The Center for Urban and Communiry Design b. Churches d. Map Team c. Commercial Buildings 2. Purpose of the Map d. Residential Buildings a. Locating historically important buildings within Over- e. Miscellaneous Buildings town b. The effects of I-95 and 395 c. Future changes of zoning and code 3. Site Research and Documentation a. History of Overtown b. Building Typologies c. Previous Studies d. Description of Study Area e. Existing Conditions 4. Maps a. Explanation of layers b. Independent layers c. Final Map Historic Plat Map, 1936 Source: 1.0 INTRODUCTION a. Vision Statement Historic Plat Map, 1967 Source: 1.0 INTRODUCTION b. The Office of Civic and Community Engagement The Office of Civic and Community Engagement (CCE) fosters university-community collaboration by engaging the university’s academic resources in the enrichment of civic and community life in our local, national, and global communities. Our goals include developing new courses in which community-based partnerships are central to course learning outcomes; enhancing existing courses by integrating community engagement into the course curriculum; and creating new initiatives that bring multiple schools and disciplines together to work on shared community-based projects that promote positive social change. These courses and projects allow students to put theory into practice and understand the complexities of practical problem solving in real-world situations, thereby preparing them to be effective civic leaders. 1.0 INTRODUCTION c. The Center for Urban and Community Design The United Nations Brudtland Commission set the following benchmark: “Sustainable development channels the preservation and creation of livable, eduring, and equitable places, where the quality of life and the long-term quality of human existance will be enhanced rather than depleted.” The Center for Urban and Community Design has made it its mission to foster a collaborative interdisciplinary approach that enhance the preservation, creation, and retrofitting of communities and buildings; addressing the environment, culture, urban, and building design in participatory planning processes in the South Florida region and beyond. The University of Miami’s School of Architecture is a national leader in the arena of ‘sustainable’ urban design. The School’s Center for Urban and Community Design underlines that strength by collaborating on local and regional planning charrettes. The CUCD provides academically based community service with the goal of supporting communities, so the quality of life in towns, cities, and villages may further improve and consequently all can reap the benefits. For more information about the Center for Urban and Community Design, contact Sonia Chao, CUCD Director and Associate Professor in Practice, University of Miami School of Architecture, at 305-284-3439, schao@ miami.edu. 1.0 INTRODUCTION b. The Map Team Team Leaders University of Miami Undergraduate Students Rafael Fornes Historia de la arquitectura y el urbanismo. Estudios de Admon Born on April 11, 1956 in El Vedado, La Habana, Cuba Local. Madrid. 1985 Abigail Blumenfeld PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Rebecca Chavarria Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echevarría. La Habana School of ARTICLES Daniel Shaffer Architecture. 1975-1981 Catálogo de Letras: Apuntes para Re-crear la Ciudad, Un Budapest Technical University, School of Architecture. 1991 momento de reflexión, etc. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Herencia: Evolución Urbana de San Cristóbal de La Habana, El Instituto Superior de Arte, ISA. La Habana. Professor. 1987-89 peligro de la modernidad, El vitral, Maestros de los cincuenta: University of Miami Graduate Student University of Miami School of Architecture. Professor 1994 – present. Rome, Manuel Gutiérrez, etc. Center for Urban and Community Design 2007 UM School of Architecture, Black and White: Ninety Miles to Research Assistant University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Visiting Professor, Fall 2012 Cuba. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana: Nicolás Quintana: El Gran Brenna Johnson Architecture and Town Planning Metropolitan Office. Havana, Cuba. 1980-85 Burgués. Nr.18 Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales. Havana, Cuba. 1986- 1990 Dossier Miami: La ciudad virtual. N. 33, Dossier coordinator: La Architecture and Town Planning Metropolitan Office. Budapest, Hungary. Habana por hacer. Article: Mayami y Labana, yin-yang cities N.50 1990-92 ORGANIZATIONS Ricardo Lopez Cuban National Heritage. Coral Gables, Fla. Founder and Board of Directors. 1994 Ricardo Lopez is a native of Miami, an Ar- URBANISM & ARCHITECTURE chitect, Urbanist, and part time Instructor at Sundial Square & Topes de Collantes Sanatorium; Trinidad, Sancti-Spiritus. the University of Miami. He has maintained 1987-1990. a professional practice with his wife in Down- This project obtained the Ministry of Culture and the National Architects town Miami since 2006 and often consults Association (UNAICC) National Prize for Interior Design. 1990 for Urban and Architectural Charettes locally Pacifico Restaurant; Chinatown, Havana, 1984 Park & Garden. Paseo Avenue and First Street; Vedado, Havana. 1982-83 and abroad. His course work includes un- El Cerro Tea House. Calzada del Cerro & Palatino. Havana. 1982-85 dergraduate and graduate level Design of Mártires del 13 de Marzo. Mausoleum. Colón Cemetery. Havana. 1982 buildings and places with a concentration in Burlington Village. Longmont, Colorado. Duany & Plater Zyberk Charrette recent years on large scale transit oriented team.1995 developments including sporting venues and El Naranjo Masterplan. Architecture Charrette. Guatemala City. 2007 port facilities. He also contributes to the Alturas de Manoguayabo. Dominican Republic. Center for Urban and Community Design. Architecture Team Leader. 2008 Preservation Certificate program offered at Haiti’s Reconstruction Charrette, 2010. University of Miami School of the school by conducting Measured Drawings Architecture courses which result in contributions to the BOOKS ILLUSTRATIONS Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Architetura e Urbanismo da Revolucao Cubana. Editorial Nobel. Sao Paolo. in the Library of Congress. 1986 2.0 PURPOSE OF THE MAP a. Locating Historically Important Buildings Within Overtown One of the primary goals in creating the map was to identify and celebrate important and valuable resources within the Overtown community. Because so much of Historic Overtown has been destroyed, the recognition of these historically important buildings and sites within the community becomes paramount in the preservation of Overtown’s past and remaining historically significant vestiges. They remind us where we once came from, remind us of how far we have come, and remind us of how far we have yet to go. It is our intention to celebrate those buildings which the community already recongizes as historic landmarks, and to perhaps discover more buildings and sites worth remembering as a unique and vital part of the history of Overtown and Miami itself. Source: The Black Archives, as found in Black Miami Source: The Black Archives, as found in Black Miami in the 20th Century in the 20th Century 2.0 PURPOSE OF THE MAP b. The Effects of I-95 and 395 Raymond Mohl describes the particular effects of I-95 in his chapter “Race and Space in the Modern City: Interstate 95 and the Black Community in Miami” of Urban Policy in the 20th Century as a rather deliberate venture with greusome consequences for the Black Community of Overtown. “By the end of the expressway building era, little remained of Overtown to recall its days as a thriving center of black community life, when it was widely known as the ‘Harlem of the South.’” He claims that state and federal highway officials, as well as private agencies such as the Urban Land Institute, saw the federal building program as a means to wipe out what they saw as “blighted” black communities in one fell swoop; and with the position of the Bureau of Public Roads and the State Highway departments being that any social consequence of the interstate was negligible to its construction, the communities that were affected were left on their own to find new homes with no relocation assistance being made available. President Truman himself rejected the coordination of highway and housing programs citing expenses as an issue. Initially the City of Miami’s Planning and Zoning Board complied a comprehensive plan for the expressway route, and were, in fact, especially sensitive toward neighborhood preservation. However, the City ultimately had little control over the construction of the Interstate, and the influential Miami business people, realtors, and politicians who sought to expand the white business disrtict into Overtown formed the Miami First Committee which sought to push an alternative expressway plan. Undoubtedly, the construction of I-95 and 395 made major changes to the Overtown Community, effectively dividing the area into four quadrants.