The original home of the Miami News, a now-defunct evening paper founded in 1896, the Freedom Tower has housed celebrities, refugees and iconic art over its 93-
beachfront location. However, the real estate development was cut short by a destructive hurricane followed by the Great Depression. In the mid-1930's, the Art Deco buildings were constructed and this boom in the real estate continued until 1942. After World War II, thousands of Miami's soldi...
In 1896Henry M. Flaglerextended hisFlorida East Coast Railwayto the site after Tuttle and Brickell each gave him half of their landholdings for the project. Flagler had been convinced to extend the railroad after a freeze during the winter of 1894–95 killed most of Florida’s citrus crop; ...