This 32-story building at One SE 3 Avenue, Miami, opened in 1973.
The AmeriFirst Bank records consist of newspaper clippings; correspondence; pamphlets and ephemera; photographs; nine scrapbooks; two record books; two video-cassettes; and one reel of film. Material pertains to the structure and operation of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Miami, later known as AmeriFirst Bank
The scrapbooks, which document the history of the savings and loan and the construction of the AmeriFirst Building, contain correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. Included in the collection is a copy of a report made by the Architectural Consulting and Guiding Committee on the Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center [Interama]. This report contains proposals, specifications, building costs, and plans detailing the site. The subjects of the videocassettes are brief, thirty-second spots on AmeriFirst Bank filmed before 1979 and in 1987. The reel of film contains over five minutes of footage on the opening of the Little River branch of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association.
AmeriFirst BankThe Little River Branch, designed by Robert Fitch Smith and located between NE 83 and 84 Streets and 2nd Avenue, opened in circa 1949.
Miami's first federal building, located at NE 1st Avenue and 1st Street, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In the 1930s, Walker purchased the building for his company headquarters.