llen Uguccioni smiles inside the Coral Gables City Hall Commission Chambers, with framed artwork and flags visible behind her.
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Coral Gables honors Ellen Uguccioni, preservationist who helped save the Biltmore

Ellen Uguccioni helped rescue the Biltmore Hotel from years of abandonment, established historic preservation as a central responsibility of Coral Gables government and inspired generations of architects and preservationists to…

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Gladys Gómez-Rossié looks through archival maps in the Cuban Heritage Collection. (Photo: Joshua Prezant/University of Miami)
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Gladys Gómez-Rossié, Cuban Heritage Collection pioneer, retires after 59 years at UM

Visitors to the University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage Collection came to know Gladys Gómez-Rossié for several things: her ability to find a particular photograph, book or letter among thousands of…

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Portrait of author and preservation advocate Karelia Martinez Carbonell alongside the cover of Coral Gables: The Moderns: 1960–1980, a book examining Modernist architecture in Coral Gables.
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‘The Moderns’ joins Miami-Dade library collection ahead of Coral Gables author talk

A book that argues Coral Gables’ mid-century Modernist buildings deserve a place alongside the city’s better-known Mediterranean Revival landmarks has gained a new distinction: a place in the Miami-Dade Public…

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