Freedom Tower (Miami)
The Freedom Tower (Spanish: Torre de la Libertad) is a building in Miami, Florida. It was designed by Schultze and Weaver and is currently used as a contemporary art museum and a central office to different disciplines in the arts associated with Miami Dade College. It is located at 600 Biscayne Boulevard on Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus.
On September 10, 1979, Freedom Tower was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. On October 6, 2008, it was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark for its role in hosting Cubans as they fled communist Cuba for Florida following the 1959 Cuban Revolution. On April 18, 2012, the AIA’s Florida Chapter placed the building on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places as the Freedom Tower / Formerly Miami News and Metropolis Building. Freedom Tower is served by the Miami Metrorail at the Government Center Station and the Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre station, as well as by the Metromover at the Freedom Tower station on the Omni Loop.
Nearby Locations:
Bayside Marketplace (0.2 miles) Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science (0.4 miles) Skyviews Miami Observation Wheel (0.4 miles) Alfred I. DuPont Building (0.4 miles) Pérez Art Museum Miami (0.4 miles) | Giant Head Statue (0.5 miles) Bayfront Park (0.5 miles) Brickell Key Park (1.1 miles) Wynwood Walls (1.6 miles) Museum of Graffiti (1.6 miles) |
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Freedom Tower (Miami), 600 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, Florida 33132
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