Miami, Florida Map 1934 City Plan - Miami, Coral Gables, Hialeah

Karl Squires, a civil engineer operating out of the Halcyon Arcade in downtown Miami, compiled and published this detailed folding street map of Greater Miami in 1934, capturing the city during its Depression-era recovery from the collapse of the 1920s Florida land boom. The map's grid delineates municipal subdivisions across Miami, Coral Gables, Hialeah and Miami Beach, carefully differentiating platted developments already built from projects that remained unbuilt after the boom went bust, a distinction of real practical value to anyone navigating South Florida real estate in the mid-1930s. A marginal key explains the grid-numbering system centered on the intersection of Miami Avenue and Flagler Street, the city's principal downtown crossroads. Squires's engineering background lends the map a technical precision distinct from the more purely promotional real-estate maps common in Florida during the boom years just before it.

The map captures South Florida's aviation and maritime infrastructure at a genuinely transformative moment, locating the Pan American Airways flying-boat base at Dinner Key alongside municipal airfields, seaplane basins and early blimp facilities, all part of Miami's emergence as a national hub for early commercial aviation. Prominent real estate ventures line Biscayne Bay, alongside boom-era landmarks including the Biltmore Hotel, Hialeah Park Race Track and Normandy Isle, each a landmark of the speculative development wave that had crested and collapsed less than a decade before this map appeared. Coral Gables, George Merrick's planned Mediterranean Revival suburb, and Hialeah, home to the racetrack and its own separate municipal identity, both anchor Miami's wider metropolitan geography beyond the city core itself. Together these details preserve Greater Miami exactly as it worked to rebuild its economy after the land bust and hurricane of 1926.

A fitting gift for a Miami family with roots in the city's 1920s boom-and-bust years, or for a Coral Gables or Hialeah transplant curious to see their neighborhood as it stood during the Depression-era recovery. Its engineer's precision in distinguishing built from unbuilt subdivisions gives it real documentary value for anyone researching South Florida's boom-era real estate history specifically. It's supplied unframed and available across our full range of sizes, from a small desk print to a large-format piece for a study or office wall.