Henri Levy Park and Fountain

This recently restored fountain was named in memory of French-born Henri Levy, developer of the Normandy Isle and Surfside communities in the 1920s. His real estate ventures had to be north of any properties once owned by Carl Fisher, whose ...

Temple Beth Shmuel Cuban Hebrew Congregation of Miami (Conservative)

Approximately 10,000 Jews left Cuba during the anti-Castro exodus, most settling in the Miami-Dade area. It was these Cuban Jewish exiles who in 1961 founded this congregation, one of two that were designed by the Cuban-born Jewish brothers-Oscar and Isaac ...

Temple Moses Sephardic Congregation of Florida (Orthodox)

Sermons are delivered in Spanish at this Cuban-Sephardic congregation. Dedicated in 1980, the synagogue is a copy of a synagogue in Havana that was abandoned by Jews fleeing Castro. Outside, at the corner of Main and Vichy, a plaque commemorates ...

Temple Emanu-El of Greater Miami (Conservative)

Founded on Miami Beach in 1938 as Congregation Jacob Joseph, then as the Miami Beach Community Center, the name was changed to Temple Emanu-El in 1954. The building dates from 1949. The dome is designed in the Byzantine style and ...

Wolfie's Deli

Wolfie Cohen came to Florida in 1932. In 1947, he opened the original Wolfie's at this site, the first of seven restaurants on the beaches. The deli has been the site of numerous political rallies and kick-off campaigns through the ...

Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University

Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. founded the Wolfsonian museum in 1986 to showcase his own collection of more than 70,000 objects from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries with emphasis on furniture and the decorative and propaganda arts. The collection also ...

Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum

The only museum dedicated to Florida's Jewish experience from 1763 to the present opened in 1995. The Museum is housed in Ira Giller's award-winning restoration of an Art Deco synagogue designed by Henry Hohauser in 1936. Especially noteworthy are its ...

Convent of the Sacred Heart

The Convent of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic all-girl school in the Manhattan borough of New York City and the oldest private school in the city.

Founded in 1881 by the Society of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic ...

North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial

At the 27-acre North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial in Tunisia rest 2,841 of our military dead, their headstones set in straight lines subdivided into nine rectangular plots by wide paths, with decorative pools at their intersections. Along the southeast ...

Florence American Cemetery and Memorial

The Florence American Cemetery and Memorial site in Italy covers 70 acres. The wooded hills that frame its western perimeter rise several hundred feet. Between the two entrance buildings, a bridge leads to the burial area where the headstones of ...