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Alhambra Circle)
, where Greenway Ct and Ferdinand St meet Alhambra Circle, resembles a
Moorish lighthouse.
Coral Gables City Hall
HISTORIC BUILDING
This grand building has housed boring city-commission meetings since it opened in 1928.
It's impressive from any angle, certainly befitting its importance as a central government
building. Check out Denman Fink's
Four Seasons
ceiling painting in the tower, as well as
his framed, untitled painting of the underwater world on the 2nd-floor landing. There's a
small farmers market on-site from 8am to 1pm, January to March.
Coral Gables Congregational Church
CHURCH
George Merrick's father was a New England Congregational minister, so perhaps that ac-
counts for him donating the land for the city's first church. Built in 1924 as a replica of a
church in Costa Rica, the yellow-walled, red-roofed exterior is as far removed from New
England as…well, Miami. The interior is graced with a beautiful sanctuary and the
grounds are landscaped with stately palms.
Coral Gables Museum
MUSEUM
child/student $7/3/5; noon-6pm Tue-Fri, 11am-5pm Sat, noon-5pm Sun)
This museum is a well-plotted introduction to the oddball narrative of the founding and
growth of the City Beautiful (Coral Gables). The collection includes historical artifacts and
mementos from succeeding generations in this tight-knit, eccentric little village. The main
building is the old Gables police and fire station, itself a lovely architectural blend of
Gables' Mediterranean revival and a more Miami Beach-esque, muscular Depression-mo-
derne style.