Name: Miami Springs Historical Society
Address: 501 East Drive, Miami Springs, FL, 33166, US
Telephone: (305) 884-4406

The City

City of Miami Springs
Official city government site
100 Miami Springs — Centennial Site
Official centennial celebration
100 Miami Springs — Our History
Centennial timeline of Miami Springs history
Miami Springs Historical Museum
City of Miami Springs page for the Historical Society museum at 501 East Drive
Miami Springs Pueblo Style Architecture
City overview of the Pueblo Revival style, including attribution to James Bright's Southwest background
Lua Curtiss House #2 — Country Club Estates
City historic site record citing the original 1926 Country Club Estates promotional brochure
Wikipedia — Miami Springs, Florida

Historic Sites

Curtiss Mansion
Glenn H. Curtiss Mansion and Gardens, Miami Springs
Curtiss Mansion — Community History
History of Miami Springs and the Curtiss-Bright development
Curtiss Mansion — National Register of Historic Places
NPS NRHP record no. 85003579, listed December 21, 2001
Glenn Curtiss House — National Park Service
NPS article on the Curtiss House and its history
Glenn H. Curtiss Mansion and Gardens — City of Miami Springs
City record confirming National Register listing (2001) and local historic designation (1987)
Preserve America — Miami Springs, Florida
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation community profile

Florida Memory — State Archives of Florida
Public domain photographs and documents
Florida Memory — Lua Curtiss House #1, Country Club Estates (1926)
Fishbaugh photograph, June 7, 1926. Record PHF278. Public domain.
Florida Memory — Glenn H. Curtiss Home (1927)
Fishbaugh photograph. Public domain.
Florida Memory — Two Homes in Country Club Estates (1926)
Fishbaugh photograph. Public domain.
The Miami News — "Four Months of Development, Country Club Estates" (April 9, 1925)
Newspapers.com (subscription required). Promotional coverage of early Country Club Estates development.
Glenn H. Curtiss Collection — Smithsonian NASM
Personal and corporate correspondence, photographs, and legal records (1905–1931)
Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport NY
Personal letters, blueprints, and corporate documents held in Curtiss's hometown
Hialeah History Digital Collection
Holds a 1926 Curtiss-Bright letter to property owners, early aerial photographs, and Curtiss-Bright Ranch images (ca. 1922)
Library of Congress — Glenn Curtiss Photographs
Public domain photographs including the Harris & Ewing portrait collection

Wikipedia — Glenn Hammond Curtiss
Aviation pioneer, inventor, and co-founder of Miami Springs
Wikipedia — Glenn Curtiss Mansion
James H. Bright Elementary — Biographies
Biographical notes on James H. Bright, co-developer of Country Club Estates
Miami Springs Golf Course History — Yvonne Shonberger
Researched history of the Miami Springs Golf & Country Club by a Miami Springs Preservation Board member, drawing on primary sources and news accounts

Wikipedia — Eastern Air Lines
MiamiSprings.com — Why So Many Eastern Airlines Employees Lived in Miami Springs
Documents the Glenn H. Curtiss Properties financing offers to Eastern employees in 1935
Hangar 5 Foundation
Preservation of aviation history at the former 36th Street Airport site
Flashback Miami — Hialeah
Historical overview of the Curtiss-Bright land development era in northwest Miami-Dade
Smithsonian Air & Space — The Unrecognized First (Emory Conrad Malick)
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
MiamiSprings.com — Father of Cuban Aviation, Agustín Parlá
Documents Parlá's training at the Curtiss School of Aviation in Miami, January 1912
Glenn Curtiss Aviation Museum — Teaching the World to Fly
Overview of Curtiss's international flight school students including Kondo, Singh, and Parlá
Wikipedia — Curtiss Flying School
History of the Curtiss aviation schools and their international students
Internet Archive — Aeronautics Magazine, 1912 (Vol. 11–12)
June and July 1912 issues feature Rafael Martí and Agustín Parlá as Curtiss school students

City of Miami Springs — Hotel Country Club (Fairhavens)
City historic site record: built 1926 by Glenn Curtiss, transferred to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in 1929, operated as Miami Battle Creek Sanitarium
City of Miami Springs — Fair Havens Historically Designated and Protected
City record of the 1984 local historic designation and 1986 National Register of Historic Places listing (ref. 86003876)
University of Miami Libraries — Kellogg Southern Sanitarium (1928)
Jesse S. Wooley photograph, 1928. Floyd and Marion Rinhart Photograph Collection, ASM0157. Public domain.
Miami Springs Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Current operator of the historic 201 Curtiss Parkway building