KAIZEN WEALTH MANAGEMENT
history:
Miami's downtown 7-story, 43,265 square-foot Dade Commonwealth Building, at 139 N.E. First Street, was once one of Miami's tallest buildings at 17-stories, known as the Meyer-Kiser Building. It was home to Florida's first elevator. However, just one year after the building's completion, only the first 7 floors survived the devastating 1926 Miami Hurricane.
During the 1950s, the Meyer-Kiser Building
was known as the American Bank Building, as it housed the
state's largest vault. The Mosler Safe Co. vault door
registered in at 9 feet and weighed 32 tons - and it still does.
On January 4th, 1989, the Meyer-Kiser Building was added to the
U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Architect: Martin L. Hampton, 1925
Commercial Vernacular with Neoclassical Features
today:
The Dade Commonwealth Building has recently
gone through an extensive rehabilitation, headed by Jay V.
Suarez, Partner - Titan Development. As evidenced by these
close-ups, no detail was overlooked. Architectural details
include carved eagles on the cornice, Doric columns beneath a
parapet containing carved urns and the protruding silhouettes of
Corinthian columns.
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
- Epicurus