Welcome
to the Historic preservation Association
of Coral Gables.
The Historic Preservation Association of Coral Gables is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1991. The mission of the organization is to support an environment in which its members and all community citizens can understand, appreciate, exchange information and live with Coral Gables history. The Association promotes the understanding of the importance of historic resources and their preservation.
Announcing
Both planners and poets, George Merrick and Richard Blanco meet on Founder’s Day
The event honored Merrick’s love of poetry with selected readings from his 1920 book “Songs of the Wind on a Southern Shore, and other Poems of Florida.” Poetry readings were presented by poet laureate Richard Blanco.
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The organization hosted an educational panel titled, “Preserving our Patrimony. Preserving our Planet”
Read More...“A Stone’s Throw Away: 100 Years of the Deering Stone House”
The affair shared the legacy of architect Phineas Paist who, aside from designing the custom-built Mediterranean Revival stone house at Deering, he also designed landmarks in Coral Gables.
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Westminster Abbey to offer barefoot tours
Sylvia Hui ASSOCIATED PRESS
Westminster Abbey officials said Friday that the section of the church’s floor known as the Cosmati pavement, where the chair in which Britain’s monarchs are crowned has been placed for some 700 years, will be on display during Charles’ May6 coronation after being hidden away under carpets for decades because of disrepair.
The mosaic is said to be the best surviving example outside Italy of a rare type of stonework known as 'Cosmati,' after the Italian family that created it.
'It’s a unique piece of art to Westminster Abbey but also to Britain itself – there are no other mosaic pavements like this in the U.K.,' said Vanessa Simeoni, the abbey’s head conservator.
Experts from the abbey will guide the tours, which will run on some days from May15 to July29.
Items in the time capsule will be on displayed in the Roxcy O’Neal Bolton Women’s History Gallery, named after one of the park’s founders — a feminist and civil rights activist.
Time capsule honoring women’s success unveiled at Women’s Park - Miami Herald
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A copy of the Feminists Alternative Press that announced the 1992 landmark Supreme Court Decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey and a Key to the City of Sweetwater sit on display as two of the conten...
EXCERPT FROM BEA HINES COLUMN, MIAMI HERALD 03/26/23
FOUNDER OF TRAVELING PHOTO EXHIBIT HONORED
Kudos to Scherley Busch, who last Wednesday, along with her committee, pulled together a lovely reunion luncheon honoring the Florida Women of Achievement. Busch is founder and creative director of the Florida Women of Achievement Photo Documentary, a traveling photo exhibit of notable Florida women.
The event, held at the Riviera Country Club in Coral Gables, was hosted by Ed and Carol Williamson (Carol’s photo is included in the exhibit), and was the first time since the pandemic that women in the exhibit were able to meet and make plans for a permanent home for the 31-year-old exhibit.
It was in the late 1980’s that Busch first conceived of the idea of such an exhibit. Her motivation was first, to make an artistic statement and then to record the history of the contributions of Florida women. In 1992, Busch’s dream became a reality when she presented the first 12 women in an exhibit to the South Florida community at a luncheon. Among those in the first exhibit were the late Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who was 104 years old at the time.
“The idea,” she said, “was to present these women as the role models they are to children, as well as to adults. The exhibit exemplifies what can be accomplished with a dream and the drive to make the dreams a reality,” Busch said.
Since then, the exhibit and its educational programs, which includes lectures and videos featuring the honored women, have been presented in over 60 venues, including the U.S. Senate Russell Rotunda, the Florida State Capitol, the Florida Governor’s Mansion, the HistoryMiami Museum, The Miami Herald and at other public and private venues in and out of Florida.
For sponsorship opportunities, to see photos of the women in the exhibit, and for more information go to, www.floridawomenofachievement.org, or call 786-371-1992.