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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

Miami's Depression-defying skyscraper now hosts its grandest parties. The Alfred I. duPont Building at 169 East Flagler Street, completed in 1939 for 2.5 million dollars, was the first skyscraper raised in Miami after the 1926 bust and the Dade County Courthouse of 1928 - a 17-story Modern tower with Art Deco embellishments by Jacksonville architects Marsh and Saxelbye, built as headquarters for the Florida National Bank that financier Alfred I. duPont had organised in 1931, and dedicated to his...