{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Pan American Seaplane Base and Terminal Building | nrhp_type = | image = Miami FL Pan Am Bldg city hall03.jpg | caption = Miami City Hall, former Pan American Terminal Building, in 2011 | location = 3500 Pan American Dr., Miami, Florida | coordinates = {{Coord|25.72773|-80.2338|type:landmark_region:US-FL|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Miami, Florida#USA Florida#USA | built = {{Start date and age|1934}} | added = February 20, 1975 | area = {{convert|10|acre}} | refnum = 75000548<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}
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'''Miami City Hall''' is the local government headquarters for the City of Miami, Florida. Since 1954,<ref>{{Cite web|title=City Hall History |work=City of Miami - Official City of Miami Website |date=2011-09-27 |accessdate=2014-02-07 |url=http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/press/pressreleases/miami/City%20Hall%20History.asp |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927054258/http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/press/pressreleases/miami/City%20Hall%20History.asp |archivedate=September 27, 2011 }}</ref> the city government headquarters has been located in the former '''Pan American Airlines Terminal Building''' on Dinner Key, which was designed by Delano & Aldrich and constructed in 1934<ref>{{cite book |author=Writers' Program (Fla.) |date=1941 |title=Planning Your Vacation in Florida: Miami and Dade County, including Miami Beach and Coral Gables |location=Northport, N.Y. |publisher=Bacon, Percy & Daggett; reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1983 |page=135 |isbn=0404579078}}</ref> for the former International Pan American Airport.<ref name=dinner>{{Cite web | title = Pan American Seaplane Base and Terminal Building | work = Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary, National Park Service | accessdate = 2014-02-07 | url = https://www.nps.gov/articles/pan-american-seaplane-base-and-terminal-building.htm }}</ref> This building is located in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of the city. Prior to 1954, the city government headquarters had been located in Downtown Miami for 58 years.
==History== An early city hall located in downtown on Flagler Street (formerly "Twelfth Street") just southeast of the Florida East Coast Railroad Miami depot and designed by Walter De Garmo was in use from 1907 until 1928.<ref>[http://www.historical-museum.org/collect/findingaids/1982-185.html Inventory of the Walter C. DeGarmo Architectural Drawings] Historical Museum of South Florida.</ref> Miami's city hall was then relocated one block north, and housed in the newly constructed Dade County Courthouse from 1928 until it was moved to its current Coconut Grove location in 1954.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://flashbackmiami.com/2015/09/23/miami-city-hall/|title = Miami City Hall | Flashback Miami}}</ref>
The terminal building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1975.<ref>{{Cite web | title = Pan American Seaplane Base and Terminal Building | date = February 20, 1975 | access-date = 2014-02-07 | url = https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/75000548 | website = National Register of Historic Places ~ National Park Service | publisher = U.S. Department of the Interior }}</ref>
Pan Am's final flight to Dinner Key took place August 9, 1945 as seaplane use decreased with the construction of landing fields (airports) in Latin America.<ref name=dinner/>
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Miami city hall 1923.jpg|Miami City Hall in 1923, located at the southeast corner of West Flagler Street and First Avenue, designed by Walter De Garmo File:Miami city hall ca 1933.jpg|Dade County Courthouse and Miami City Hall, circa 1933 File:Dinner Key seaplane base Miami, Florida (4202781209).jpg|Seaplanes and terminal File:Miami PanAm Terminal 1940.jpg|Pan Am terminal at Dinner Key in 1944 <!-- WP:NFCC violation: File:Pan Am Facilities at Dinner Key.jpg|Pan Am facilities at Dinner Key --> </gallery>
==See also== * Government of Miami * List of mayors of Miami * Coast Guard Air Station Dinner Key
==References== {{Commons category|Pan American Seaplane Base and Terminal Building}} {{reflist}}
{{Miami}} {{National Register of Historic Places}}
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Miami Category:Government buildings completed in 1931 Category:Coconut Grove (Miami) Category:Pan Am Category:Government of Miami Category:City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida Category:1934 establishments in Florida
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