Bal Harbour’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Bal Harbour. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Since the 1920s, the Detroit-based Miami Beach Heights Corporation—headed by industrialists Robert C. Graham, Walter O. Briggs, and Carl G. Fisher—owned 245 acres (99 ha) of undeveloped, partially swampy land that stretched from Biscayne Bay to the Atlantic Ocean. Graham assumed the duties as the developer for Bal Harbour. In the 1930s, city planners Harland Bartholomew & Associates were called in to design the village. The company made several plans, and they were submitted to the Miami Beach Heights for review.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Bal Harbour’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bal Harbour’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMiami Beach - The Brownstone Apar…, c. 1951: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Bal Harbour
See all 1 →Bal Harbour, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Bal Harbour is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Bal Harbour has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Fisher-Sapero House in Surfside, 1 miles away.
Bal Harbour and the nearest listed places
Closest to Bal Harbour
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Miami Beach - The Brownstone Apartments, Bal Harbour 01 (c. 1951) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.