Photo(Bullet, 2013): Since the last time I visited the stadium, it has gone from bad to worse. Two years ago, I wrote about the Marine Marine Stadium, abandoned by the city of Miami after they condemned the stadium as unsafe, though that was later proved false after further inspections and was most likely abandoned for [...]
Photo(Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida; Florida Memory, 192-): A shot of the mansion before it became covered in vines. William John Howey was born on January 19, 1876 in Odin, Illinois. He began selling insurance at 16-years-old and by 1900 began developing land and towns for the railroad in Oklahoma. He opened the [...]
Photo: A sketching of how the schoolhouse originally looked. Kenansville is a small community located just 12 miles north of Yeehaw Junction and 27 miles south of St. Cloud. It was given the name Kenansville after Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, the wife of Henry Morrison Flagler. In 1910, Henry Flagler made a deal with the [...]
Photo(Bullet, 2011): The historic hotel has been boarded up ever since vagrants were found living inside after it’s closing. The Dania Beach Hotel was built in 1925, during the Florida land boom, and was designed by renowned architect Francis Abreu. He is best known for his architectural style of using barrel tile roofs, twisted columns, [...]