John A. Collins

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  Back then the land stretching from 14th to 67th streets was the property of Miami Beach pioneer, John Collins, who attempting to protect his crops from the ravages of wind, sand, and salt, planted the Australian pines as a barrier.

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  Back then the land stretching from 14th to 67th streets was the property of Miami Beach pioneer, John Collins, who attempting to protect his crops from the ravages of wind, sand, and salt, planted the Australian pines as a barrier.

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  Published on: 7/3/2008    Last Visited: 7/3/2008  

  The Bass Museum of Art ((BMA) was established by agreement in 1963 when the City of Miami Beach accepted the gift of the art collection of John and Johanna Bass upon condition that it would maintain the collection in perpetuity, provide for the exhibition of the collections, and keep it open and available to the public.
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  The museum occupies what was originally the Miami Beach Public Library and Art Center , designed in 1930 by Russell Pancoast, grandson of Miami Beach pioneer John A. Collins.
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  This was Miami 's first public building with an exhibition space for the fine arts, and it was designed to preserve the symmetry of the formal gardens of Collins Park, which had been donated to the City by Collins and laid out in the 1920s.

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  The Bass Museum of Art was established by agreement in 1963 when the City of Miami Beach accepted the gift of the art collection of John and Johanna Bass upon condition that it would maintain the collection in perpetuity, provide for the exhibition of the collection, and keep it open and available to the public.
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  The museum occupies what was originally the Miami Beach Public Library & Art Center, which was designed in 1930 by Russell Pancoast, a grandson of Miami Beach pioneer John A. Collins.
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  This was Miami's first public building with an exhibition space for the fine arts, and it was designed to preserve the symmetry of the formal gardens of Collins Park, which had been donated to the City by Collins and laid out in the 1920s.

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  Their architect, Jason R. Hagopian of TSAO DesignGroup found original plans signed by eminent architect Russell Pancoast, son-in-law of John Collins, a prominent Miami Beach developer.

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  Bass Museum of Art at allmiamiinfo.com - [Cached Version]
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  History The Bass Museum of Art was established by agreement in 1963 when the City of Miami Beach accepted the gift of the art collection of John and Johanna Bass upon condition that it would maintain the collection in perpetuity, provide for the exhibition of the collections, and keep it open and available to the public.
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  The museum occupies what was originally the Miami Beach Public Library and Art Center, which was designed in 1930 by Russell Pancoast, grandson of Miami Beach pioneer John A. Collins.
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  This was Miami's first public building with an exhibition space for the fine arts, and it was designed to preserve the symmetry of the formal gardens of Collins Park, which had been donated to the City by Collins and laid out in the 1920s.

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  The Bass Museum of Art was established in 1963 when the City of Miami Beach accepted the gift of the art collection of John and Johanna Bass.
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  The museum occupies what was originally the Miami Beach Public Library, which was designed in 1930 by Russell Pancoast, a grandson of Miami Beach pioneer John A. Collins.

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  Beach Guide - From TBO.com - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/18/2000    Last Visited: 2/21/2001  

  Restaurants, nightclubs, bars, boutiques, art galleries and museums line Ocean Drive and Collins and Washington avenues, as well as the Lincoln Road Mall, off Ocean Drive between 16th and 17th streets.
  
  South Beach's parameters have stretched north in recent years as some larger hotels, built in the 40s, have been bought and restored to outdistance their original glory.
  
  Todak, general manager of Delano, perhaps the most glamorous example of that trend, says South Beach has moved south and north.
  
  South of Fifth Street before was more dead.For a long time, it was just Joe's Stone Crab, he says.
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  MIAMI BEACH'S REAL FIRST WAVE of development dates to 1907, when John Collins, a Quaker farmer from New Jersey, bought five miles along the beach (now 14th Street north to 67th Street) and began growing avocados.At the time, only about 5, 000 people lived in Miami.Collins dug a canal through his property and built a street (later Collins Avenue) to get his avocados to Biscayne Bay, where they went by boat to the Miami mainland.
  
  Later, he and his son-in-law, Thomas Pancoast, partially financed a bridge across the bay.
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  Collins gave Fisher 200 acres in Miami Beach ; Fisher bought 260 acres more and began dredging and pumping sand to fill in mangrove swamps, according to the book.

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  The museum is located in what was originally the Miami Beach Public Library and Art Center, designed in 1930 by Russell Pancoast, grandson of Miami Beach pioneer John A. Collins.

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  Florida - Palm Beach And The Southeast Coast - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/3/2007    Last Visited: 8/19/2009  

  On the peninsula now known as Miami Beach a farmer from New Jersey, John S. Collins, who had found coconut growing unprofitable, was developing an avocado grove, with the assistance of his son-in-law, Thomas J. Pancoast.
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  John S. Collins was a Quaker farmer from New Jersey. When he bought, in all, 1,600 acres of land on Miami Beach, he had in his mind a vision of a great residential suburb of Miami, as soon as that city grew large enough. While waiting for that time, he decided to develop his land agriculturally. In order to make it easier to get his avocados to the railroad shipping point at Miami he dug a canal through his acres and he built a road, which is now Collins Avenue.
  
  Still the only way to get the produce from the grove to the mainland was by boat. Mr. Collins and his son-in-law, Thomas J. Pancoast, who in 1937 completed his sixteenth year as president of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, obtained a charter for the construction of a bridge.
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  Collins and Pancoast invited Carl G. Fisher to buy $50,000 of their bridge bonds.

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