" Well before we take a close look at the subject house for this year's project -- that'd be fun to take a closer look at Miami my hometown and let's get started with a both right and Biscayne bay."

" Some of the finest homes in Miami were built along the shores of Biscayne bay in the early part of the century behind me is this guy -- probably the first grade -- that I ever tour it was given to the county as an art museum back to late fifties and Molly went in there what I was maybe twelve or thirteen there's cross. They'll fight. James -- with the founder of international harvester company. He really wanted to renaissance Italian palazzo what you -- it is something not to be -- In the middle of Biscayne bay you'll find an interesting housing alternative it's known is still built. Some of these actually word of rum runners cabins back -- the twenties and thirties now and is there used as the weekend getaways but I 1999. -- will not be renewed and these will disappear and the settlement of Miami really began along the Miami river. Where the first trading post was established back in the eighteen hundreds it. And of course the Seminole Indians first traded here with a white settlement. Today along this stretch of the river we've got Yahoo! maintenance operations. One of the biggest GI yards in Florida is located right here -- Merrill --"

" Although you'll see plenty of Bob millionaires yachts have been dry dock towards here in the Miami river the most interesting rappel and got. Our big Caribbean tramp traitors that come here from places like Haiti and load up on second and bicycles used mattresses you name it. My -- has changed a great deal since I was a kid growing up here in the early fifties. The police to come downtown shopping there were only too tall -- one of them beautiful tower of the Miami daily news with its -- Bob and the other one the -- not black history built out of granite for the stepped pyramid on top that always had a public doesn't Turkey buzzards hanging around it's a different place now."

" In the course of the last thirty years yeah. An influx of Cubans fleeing the Castro dictatorship have settled in Miami and they continue to come. But they're not alone thousands of Latinos from central and South America have also come here. Miami in its brief hundred year history has become the gateway to Latin American. -- cosmopolitan city that rivals any other city in the US in terms of trade and tourism. Let's take a look at how all of this -- got started in the 1920s. Although there was still plenty of room and."

" Lattice -- around Miami by 1921. The creation of one of the first truly unique residential suburbs in America takes place just west of downtown in an area called Coral Gables the city beautiful. George merit a gentleman from Massachusetts came down here and it was really. His inspiration to create. Suburb on twelve miles of scrub pine and Bob -- that would attract wealthy northerners in mid westerners to come and visit. Visit the area and bill mentions in the Mediterranean style. So in the hired some of the finest architects landscape designers containers really to promote this concept we're looking at that Douglas street entrance here which is dead in a kind of a neoclassical renaissance style it could be found. Anywhere in the in a Mediterranean country look at the beautiful window surround with the sculpted detailing. Much of the talent was actually brought over from places like Cuba where there are still many artisans who had that. We've learned their skills from. From their parents and grandparents. The Biltmore hotel an incredible structure that was finished in 1926. The construction of this building really was the high point of merits career as a developer it was all downhill after that because. By the end of 19261. Of the greatest hurricanes in recorded history leveled much of south Florida. The tourist industry really came to a halt but still -- gables was Coral Gables in this with the safest place. To sit out hurricane let's go take a look at the Venetian pool."

" There's no doubt that walking along the edge of the Venetian -- you get the feeling that you could indeed be in Venice it's my favorite spot and all of Coral Gables and it has a very interesting history. Back in 1923. Mister Merrick commission of uncle who was an architect named deadman. Bank at another architect named Phineas paste to turn this quarry this. Rock pit which had been the source for so much of the building material here in to a thing of beauty the world's greatest swimming -- and they chose this whole theme. A Venetian lagoon. The colors. The bridges the Graf goes. Dubbed buildings that were put in the little tunnels all the features are absolutely. Haven't through a twelve year old dead or two and adopt. And back in the twenties of course it became. Famous throughout the United States as a spot to come and vacation. In fact you had people like Johnny white smaller who played Tarzan coming here in putting on high diving exhibition. From the waterfall area over here at one point in 1925 they've built. A wooden ramp across the whole pool and they had a bathing beauty contest indeed the Venetian pool this spot that any visitor to Coral Gables. Shouldn't miss. But now I want to take you a little bit. West to see what happens when a city continues to grow and suburbs continue to develop we're going to go look at an area called Kendall."

" That's Kendall drive behind me southwest 88 street. The growth of Miami couldn't go directly west into the Everglades so went southwest in this is an area that back in the 1880s was bought by an englishman by the name of Kendall. -- 25 cents an acre all the land today it is home to a quarter million Miami ends and we're at the Dade land -- when most interesting shopping centers around when it was built in the early sixties people refer to it is dead land that they didn't think anybody would want to go shop out here. Much less build a house it was really just cattle pasture and nothing much shelf right now this they'd land mall is the fifth. Biggest grossing mall in the whole United States. "