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SUMMARY OF STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The C&M Apartments, formerly the Allsbrook Apartments, were built
according to a consensus of accounts, in 1894. William and Emma Allsbrook
were married in that year, and began building a house "closeto that of
Emma's mother".1They had their first son Wm. Clemens. in.1885, and his sister
reports that he "was born in the house on Mary -St." 2Thehouse definitely
existed on itspresent site according to a Miami Metropolis article. dated
July 17, 18963 Numerous other first hand -accounts .concur..with"this date.4
The Allsbrooks were mainstays of the pioneering families that built
what is now Coconut Grove.5Mr.'Allsbrook himself was an active realtor"and
builder; Mrs. Emma was a Perry by birth- one of the first families "to homestead,
move: to and build up the "area .6
Mary Street,much of the abutting property owned and, builtupon by
Mr. Allsbrook, was the first proper residential street in this area of and
the town of Coconut Grove.
As the Grove grew -after theSpanish-American War, "":theAllsbrooks grew,
and built upon and spread out to Mary Street. Many of those houses which the
children built .or Lived ;in still stand today.
Many stories common to the Grove history tell of the Ailsbrook."family
and their dealings with the Perrys`, Peacocks, Pents and other "fami1i es The
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family was more of an institution of the Grove rather than a fixture in it.9'
Even after both Allsbrooks died and their children had married and
moved out on their own, the apartments have been maintained
for the. paste26'
years just as though" the Allsbrooks still lived there. 0Esther A. Jolleyisthe
only first generation descendant of the "family still. alive today, and .l.ives
a few. blocks . from the old house. 1,
Just as Mary street wascentral to the first development in the Grove,
the first two high-rise buildings in the Grove were built next door to the
renamed-C&M Apartments in 196512The rest of the street soon followed, and now.
the entire Grove area is subject to intensive development.l3
perhaps rightfully ly so,: the last vestige of the old
The apartments are, "p_ P 9
Mary Street and central Grove. Fitting, because it was-from"them that the: area
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just from their architectural but
grew and flourished. But.it is obvious, not _..
from their economic and cultura l�longevity,'that.theystill provide" a needed_
common ground between pioneer, sea-orientid5 and tourist cultures that the
special village .of Coconut Grove demands.;
A:
B:'Houses built by Raymond Allsbrook,
3221-3231 Virginia St. Footnote 83
C: House of Mary`Elizabeth Allsbrook,
now business of "Rollerfeet", F.N.85
2838 Oak Ave.
D: House of Dixie Hudson, wife of old
jailer, where fire station is now.
E. Old Harris house and now house of
W Hansen 3344 V i rg i na St.
Footnote ,
79
F. Old Saunders store, 3035 Grand Ave.
Footnote 79
G.Mayfair in the Grove, once the site
of a church, general store and
boarding house. Footnote 93
H. Yacht Harbor; Condominium, 19-story
building once the old Carey property
Footnote 93
I. Old house of C.H. Perry, built in
1896.,2811 Bayshore Dr.
Footnote 31
J. Proposed site of Jamestown
Center, a 19-story condominium
Footnote 31
K: Up on Bayshore Dr., the old;:.
Swanson house that was moved
in 1897.
L: siteof oldSaunders house, now
the Coconut Grove Arcade.
Footnote 79 1 5
NOTE 4 : REFERENCED LOTS'"AS THEY EXIST TODAY
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