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HMA0192 · Collection · 1926-1967

Box 1 contain sales and rental records for the Carl G. Fisher properties and the Miami Beach Bay Shore Company. Properties are identified by subdivision, block and lot numbers.

Boxes 2 and 3 contain records of various properties in Miami Beach (a few are for Surfside, Bal Harbour and Golden Isles) that Chase appraised betweem 1946 amd 1967. Some include maps, photographs and a description of the zoning conditions and demographics at the time. Notable is the appraisal of the Briggs estate for the estate of Jane C. Briggs in 1955, when the zoning for "Millionaires Row" was about to change to hotels and apartments.

Plat maps, personal and business correspondence and ephemera are in box 3.

Handwritten notes added in 2014 by Carolyn Klepser detail the owners and architects of some of the properties.

Chase, C. W., Jr.
HMA0151 · Collection · circa 1900-circa 1970 (predominant: 1915-1942)

Manuscript and printed maps collected by Johnson H. Pace, of subdivisions, mainly in Miami-Dade County (Fla.) including Coral Gables, Shenandoah, Silver Bluff, Miami Springs, and others. Consists of original drawings, blueprints, blue-lines, and so on. Many of the maps are annotated in pencil.

One folder contains architectural plans of buildings in downtown Miami.

A fifth, clam-shell box contains hand-written, itemized descriptions of the maps, written on index cards and loose leaf paper.

Pace, Johnson H.
08/ · Collection · 1925-1926

Newspaper clippings and notes pertain to real estate and banking matters at the height of the Florida land boom. Collection also includes letters of recommendation for M.L. Sumner

Sumner, M. L