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The Lummus Park Historic District is a U.S. historic district in Miami, Florida. It is roughly bounded by Northwest Second Street, Northwest Third Court, Northwest Fourth Street, and Northwest North River Drive. On October 25, 2006, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
[edit] Lummus Park
There are two Lummus Parks located in Miami-Dade County, Florida: One is in the City of Miami on the Miami River, and was built in 1909. It was a conventional inner-city open space and recreation park, and was the favorite winter playground for many years for French Canadian tourists, who would displace the local area park users for the winter months. The other, and more well-known, is on the Atlantic Ocean in the City of Miami Beach, and when redesigned and improved in the mid-1980's, it became the seed project for the redevelopment of what is now the Ocean Drive Deco District of SoBe (South Beach) from 5th to 15th Streets along Ocean Drive. The Miami Beach park initially became the location for many scenes from the television series "Miami Vice", and its 20' wide Deco inspired three colored sidewalk, now faded to natural concrete, was the North American homage to Brazilian Landscape Architect Roberto Burle Marx's oceanfront walk along Copacabana Beach near Rio de Janiero. The Miami Beach park, and the Deco streetscape along Ocean Drive continues to be featured in "Miami" location shots for television and movies, and can be seen in recent episodes of the USA Network's "Burn Notice".
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