Recursos y Referencias

Official city government site

Official centennial celebration

Centennial timeline of Miami Springs history

City of Miami Springs page for the Historical Society museum at 501 East Drive

City overview of the Pueblo Revival style, including attribution to James Bright's Southwest background

City historic site record citing the original 1926 Country Club Estates promotional brochure

Glenn H. Curtiss Mansion and Gardens, Miami Springs

History of Miami Springs and the Curtiss-Bright development

NPS NRHP record no. 85003579, listed December 21, 2001

NPS article on the Curtiss House and its history

City record confirming National Register listing (2001) and local historic designation (1987)

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation community profile

Public domain photographs and documents

Fishbaugh photograph, June 7, 1926. Record PHF278. Public domain.

Fishbaugh photograph. Public domain.

Fishbaugh photograph. Public domain.

Newspapers.com (subscription required). Promotional coverage of early Country Club Estates development.

Personal and corporate correspondence, photographs, and legal records (1905–1931)

Personal letters, blueprints, and corporate documents held in Curtiss's hometown

Holds a 1926 Curtiss-Bright letter to property owners, early aerial photographs, and Curtiss-Bright Ranch images (ca. 1922)

Public domain photographs including the Harris & Ewing portrait collection

Aviation pioneer, inventor, and co-founder of Miami Springs

Biographical notes on James H. Bright, co-developer of Country Club Estates

Researched history of the Miami Springs Golf & Country Club by a Miami Springs Preservation Board member, drawing on primary sources and news accounts

Ecological history of the pre-development northwest Miami-Dade landscape

Documents the Glenn H. Curtiss Properties financing offers to Eastern employees in 1935

Preservation of aviation history at the former 36th Street Airport site

Historical overview of the Curtiss-Bright land development era in northwest Miami-Dade

Documents the disputed claim that Malick was the first African American aviator; genealogical evidence showed he was white — retracted by Smithsonian and NMAAHC in 2023

Documents Parlá's training at the Curtiss School of Aviation in Miami, January 1912

Overview of Curtiss's international flight school students including Kondo, Singh, and Parlá

History of the Curtiss aviation schools and their international students

June and July 1912 issues feature Rafael Martí and Agustín Parlá as Curtiss school students

City historic site record: built 1926 by Glenn Curtiss, transferred to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in 1929, operated as Miami Battle Creek Sanitarium

City record of the 1984 local historic designation and 1986 National Register of Historic Places listing (ref. 86003876)

Jesse S. Wooley photograph, 1928. Floyd and Marion Rinhart Photograph Collection, ASM0157. Public domain.

Current operator of the historic 201 Curtiss Parkway building

WLRN, December 2025

Context on land use and agricultural history in Miami-Dade County