5-acre (2.0 ha) Florida State Park in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida, built in 1891, is the oldest house in its original location in Miami-Dade County
General Information
Miami, FL, 33133
How to Get There
Head west on SE 12th Terrace toward Brickell Ave. Take S Miami Ave and S Bayshore Dr to Via Abitare Way. Turn left onto Via Abitare Way.
Overview
The Barnacle Historic State Park is a 5-acre bayfront park in Miami's Coconut Grove, built around the 1891 home of yacht designer Ralph Middleton Munroe, the oldest house in Miami-Dade County still in its original location. Munroe, a founder of Coconut Grove and of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, built the one-story house on wooden pilings around an octagonal central room and called it "The Barnacle." The path to it goes through one of the last remnants of the original Miami tropical hardwood hammock.
Visiting
- Tours: the historic house and Munroe's boathouse, built in 1887
- Events: frequent concerts on the bayfront lawn
- Parking: none in the park except for those with disabilities; use the public lot near the Coconut Grove Playhouse or street parking
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "The Barnacle Historic State Park", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
