The success of the CUCD work on the Grand Avenue Plan convinced the City of Miami to offer vacant lots for the development of affordable housing. In 2002, a group of architecture students were assigned to produce three new designs for affordable ...
The Grand Avenue Vision Plan and Master Plan which were spearheaded Samina Quareshi, Luce Professor in Family and Community, with the participation of several University departments, promotes the social, economic and physical renaissance of the We...
The City of Miami commissioned the Center for Urban & Community Design to document the historic neighborhoods of Coconut Grove, first settle by 'northeasterners' and by Bahamians in 1873. A series of drawings were created to illustra...
The intent of the first study was to improve the infrastructure, character, and livability of the Buena Vista Historic District and neighborhood and to suggest methods for the preservation of its historic and cultural assets. The City of Miami Pla...
Series I depicts 19th century "views" of Southern Florida and Staten Island. The photographs are visual documents of South Florida flora and fauna, native Seminole Indians, Bahamian settlers as well as the early European residents of Coc...
In 1894, Ralph Munroe met his second wife Miss Jessie Wirth during a sailing trip with his friends Mr. and Mrs. Benton (Jessie Wirth was Mrs. Benton's younger sister). Ralph Munroe and Jessie Wirth were married in July 1895. The couple had tw...
The diaries, calendars and logs record the individual perspectives of members of the Munroe family during their travels and as they settle in the local Staten Island and Coconut Grove communities. For instance, Ellen Middleton and Thomas Munroe (R...
The Bay View House, later known as the Peacock Inn, was the earliest hotel in the Bay area as of 1882. The inn was owned by English settlers, Charles and Isabella Peacock who maitained it until 1902. Ralph Munroe was a frequent winter visitor and ...
Series 5 includes typescripts of Ralph Munroe's memoir, The Commodore's Story, which he co-authored with his friend Vincent Gilpin. The book was published in 1930.
