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Part of a city built for an affluent citizenry seeking to live out their dreams, Coral Gables’ theme villages certainly weren’t shy about presenting a fantasy. In the case of the Pioneer/Colonial Village designed by the architectural firm of John Pierson, and John and Coulton Skinner, there’s an idealized, if quitter vague, notion of an old world United States.

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