HISTORIC TOURIST DESTINATIONS Miami 75 K Lakes North Miami GAGE Miami Beach Opa-Locka Gardens EN Hialeah Gardens Miami • Hialeah I Curtiss Shores Miami Mansion H Springs 95 195 F J CH 826 E Miami Mansion after arsons B Coral M Beach 1920’s Mansion Sweetwater Gables A PROGRESS MADE POSSIBLE BY L THE MANSION ENRI • Support from Miami Springs voters on South Miami The Curtiss Mansion is a two-story • April 6, 1993 ballot question (75% in C Key deltoid-shaped and multi-massed example Biscayne favor of Mansion purchase) G Pinecrest of Pueblo-Mission Revival architecture. • Land contribution - City of Miami Springs - D Built in 1925 by Glenn Curtiss as his approximately $3 million value Palmetto GHT Bay private residence, the Mansion was originally • Permitting waiver - City of Miami Springs - Biscayne called “Dar-en-aha,” meaning the house of $122,000 value Bay contentment. • Insurance refund - City of Miami Springs - ELI $168,000 D The structure's 14,733 square feet (1st • Metropolitan Planning Organization • floor is 9,782 sq. ft. and the 2nd floor is (MPO) TEP Funds - $1 million Homestead • Miami-Dade County General 3,950 sq. ft.) are roughly center-sited on TE the triangular-shaped 3.35-acre tract with Obligation Bond 2004 - $1 million A Barnacle H Hampton House some of the original landscaping, tropical • State of Florida Bureau of Historic B Biltmore I Hialeah Race Track Preservation - $336,500 C Cauley Square J Holocaust Museum vegetation and 1-acre pond. • Miami Springs Historical Society - $10,000 D Deering Estate K Spanish Monastery • University of Miami School of EDUCA E Fort Dallas L Venetian Pool The Mansion was the victim of three Architecture - $15,000 in kind F Freedom Tower M Vizcaya separate arson fires, and its restoration • • Private individuals and foundations - G Gold Coast Railroad Museum to the original 1925 condition is made $180,000 possible in part by comprehensive • In-kind services - $887,000 to date RM documentation and photographs. Mansion today The Curtiss Mansion is significant for both the achievements of Curtiss and for its INFO architectural style. It was locally designated • as an historic site in 1987 and was placed Preserving the gift of history on the National Register of Historic Sites for future generations in 2001 as an individual structure and as IRE 500 Deer Run, Miami Springs, FL 33166 part of a thematic group. PH: 305-807-7878 www.curtissmansion.com INSP Concept, copy and design donated by Adkins & Associates Printing donated by Adkins & Associates GLENN CURTISS HAMMOND “The Incurable ECONOMIC IMPACT CURTISS Florida Addict” “A Man of Speed and Many Firsts” Founded Florida cities of Opa-locka, 7 NW NW Hialeah and Miami Springs D I-9 5 E 5 Glenn Curtiss, internationally famous aviation 14 A 27 BOAR 1 Established 12,000-acre Curtiss Bright WY pioneer and inventor, is considered the SEA XPR E H Ranch with partner, James Bright, and 10 VEN 11 IXI “Architect of Aviation,” “The Henry Ford of ESS introduced cattle breeds and grasses T D UE Aviation,” and “Father of Naval Aviation.” 1 WAY adaptable to Florida climate WES His contributions to aviation history are W.O unparalleled, as evidenced by the exhibits in 2 Invented airboat for better transportation KEE NW 119 STREET CHOBEE 6 the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space for Seminole friends 4 5 NW 79 STREET Museum, and the designation as Great Platted 52 subdivisions in Dade County 12 Floridian by Florida's Secretary of State. NW 36 STREET Established Miami's 1st aviation school that Curtiss was awarded the Congressional Medal 3 led to Miami's 1st airport at Braddock’s 3 of Honor and the Distinguished Flying Cross 2 The Curtiss Mansion will become a global destination Corners (NW 17 Ave and 20 St) SW 8 STREET for his work and efforts during World War I, 13 for growing interest in heritage tourism, which and was inducted into the National Inventors Started Miami Film Studios in Hialeah works hand in hand with arts and cultural tourism Hall of Fame with 400 patents and over 500 Opened Miami Kennel Club, second US NE to stimulate Florida's economy in positive and inventions credited to him. dog track LI meaningful ways, as noted by the Florida Cultural 4 Built Miami Jockey Club, later Hialeah BELT Alliance in 2008. Race Track 9 1902-19 5 Introduced Jai-Alai to Miami and built FEC 8 Heritage, Arts & Cultural Tourism fronton • Produced motorcycles and Impact on Florida became America's 1st world 6 79th Street Causeway built in 1928, before record champion 56.4 sec. mile other causeways to access Hialeah Race How • “Fastest man in the world” 136/36 • Delivered over $446.5 million in local and state Track, leading to the growth and development mph on his.8-cylinder motorcycle Glenn Curtiss government revenue • Member of Alexander Graham Bell’s Aerial of north east Miami helped build Experiment Association (AEA) • Supported over 88,326 full-time jobs Donated 6 miles of right-of-way for WY • First US aircraft with wheels, and 1st controlled by ailerons 7 South Florida • Generated over $2.1 billion in local economic activity extension of Seaboard Air Line Railroad E H • First official public US flight IXI • Generated $2.1 billion in household income • Established 1st US flying school 8 Donated 2 miles right-of-way for FEC H D • Return on investment was $5 to every $1 invested • First Canadian airplane flight • First US licensed aircraft manufacturer, produced and Railroad Belt Line, so trains could bypass SOUT sold 1st US private aircraft downtown Miami The Curtiss Mansion is in a unique position to provide • First public straight-line flight of 1 km (Scientific opportunities as cultural, historic, civic, business, social, 9 Founding donor of University of Miami and American Trophy) and educational venue. • Won second Scientific American trophy for circular flight received honorary doctorate • Won 1st international air race with 46.5 mph in 10 Opened Aerocar Manufacturing Company Rheims, France in Opa-locka • Cultural - Lecture series, intergenerational oral • Trained Blanche Stuart Scott, 1st female American pilot Helped create Miami City National Bank to foster history project, documentary film festival, history • First successful takeoff from a Navy ship Built the Pan American Exhibition Center challenges, music and art on the veranda, invention • First simulated bombing run and 1st firearm use from to promote tropical agriculture development an aircraft contests, book club, poetry groups • First radio communication with aircraft in flight 11 Built the Florida Aviation Camp in Opa-locka Appointed to Florida Drainage Board and Okeechobee • Historic - Rewrite history, not only Curtiss but • Received US pilot's license #1 Flood Control District many other unsung heroes and (s)heroes • First successful US pontoon aircraft and 1st practical Started Hialeah Press Along with Cuban investors, formed Aerovias Curtiss- • Civic - Local organizations meeting venue, plus seaplane 12 Opened golf course in Miami Springs, South • First takeoff and landing on water, and 1st flying boat Florida’s oldest municipal course Cubana (now Cubana) local government workshops • Built 1st US Navy aircraft and trained 1st two Navy pilots Honorary Greater Miami Airports Association • Business - Conferences, meeting place • First military aviation school 13 Opened first state-chartered bank in Dade • Social - Receptions, weddings, gatherings • First air-sea rescue, 1st dual pilot controls, and 1st County (GMAA) president, prompted establishing Miami's retractable landing gear Aviation Department to administer 160-acre Hialeah • Educational - Invention contests, thematic school tours • First compressed air catapult launch Deeded Miami Springs and Opa-locka golf field Curtiss donated (cultural, local, architectural and aviation history, • Trained 1st Cuban Air Corps pilot, Augustin Parla Orduna courses to City of Miami so underground science and technology, and of course Glenn Curtiss, • First heavier-than-air craft intended for transatlantic flight 14 Lobbied Congress to locate a Naval Reserve Air Base wells could supply adequate water for neighborhood tours of Hialeah, Opa-locka and Miami • First demonstration of automatic pilot continued growth in South Florida, then donated land for it in Opa-locka • Curtiss NC-4 flying boat is 1st to cross Atlantic Ocean Springs, teacher workshops, lessons on the web)..