Grove Park National Register
Grove Park National Register
Project Type: National Register Nomination
Project Status: Ongoing
Dates: July 2020 – Present
Site Area: 46 acres
Team: Plusurbia Design
Client: Dade Heritage Trust
As the decades unfolded, many of Miami’s most prominent citizens called the subdivision home. While the neighborhood remained insulated from the quickening pace of life in Miami, its location across from the storied Orange Bowl stadium for seventy-five years brought excitement, with the rich array of sporting and other events hosted there. An ill-advised decision in the 1960s to build the right of way of the Florida State Road 836 Expressway thru the neighborhood led to the demolition of many homes in the northern portions of Grove Park and effectively bifurcated the community. Surprisingly, few homes other than those in the expressway’s path have been razed. While the subdivision experienced a malaise after droves of residents moved to the new suburbs ringing the county in the expansive decades following World War II, today’s Grove Park is again a coveted neighborhood owing to its central location, its elegant homes, a surfeit of foliage, and quiet streets.
