About our Historic Neighborhood

Our neighborhood is part of the oldest intact neighborhood in North Miami. It has connections to George Merrick and might have even had a golf course at one time! Read more below.

1915

Acadia Subdivision is Platted

Acadia (N.E. 70th Street), which was platted in 1915 by George Merrick. See below for more details.

1921

Baywood Subdivision is Platted

Baywood (N.E. 69th Street and the south side of N.E. 71st Street), which was platted in 1921 and added to in 1924

1925

Washington Place platted & Samuel Prescott completes the Prescott Mansion

Washington Place (N.E. 72nd Street and the north side of N.E. 71st Street), which was platted in 1925.

Did you know?

HBCA is part of oldest intact community in NE Miami

The Bayside Historic District reflects the formative years of the early 1900s through the mid-1940s. Once a part of the pioneer settlement of Lemon City, Bayside contains the oldest intact community in Northeast Miami.

George E. Merrick who platted Coral Gables platted part of HBCA

The Acadia subdivision was platted in 1915 by the Realty Securities Corporation and George E. Merrick. Although the subdivision evokes the memory of Longfellow with such names as Acadian Way, Evangeline Circle, Tropical Trail, and Druid Walk, the houses developed here are distinctly Mediterranean Revival in influence. This is due perhaps to the fact that only two houses were constructed prior to 1925. Development took off during the Boom years of the mid-1920s, however, when Wykoff and Estes Builders constructed an outstanding cluster of large, two-story Mediterranean Revival style houses near the eastern end of NE 70th Street.

We used to have a golf course!

The last subdivision to be subdivided was Washington Place, which was also developed between 1925 and the mid-1940s. Samuel J. Prescott, who platted the subdivision in 1925, had constructed his own winter home at 7101 N.E. 10th Avenue some years before, called Prescott Mansion. It no longer stands, but has to be recreated if the land is developed. The estate once featured a recreational golf course for residents and guests.