Coral Gables, Miami — The City Beautiful, Miracle Mile, and Mediterranean Architecture That Predates Miami Beach
The coral-rock pillars at the entrances to Coral Gables — those rough, oolitic-limestone gateways at Granada, Douglas, and Alhambra — were quarried from the same ground that became the Venetian Pool. George Merrick had them built in the 1920s as part of a master plan that treated