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Photograph of Villa Providence
Photograph by Pietro, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Villa Providence

Built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.

From the record

“Villa Providence is a national historic site located at 324 SW 2nd Avenue, Hallandale Beach, Florida in Broward County. Built in 1924 in Italian Renaissance style by Frank and Rosina Curci, it was their residence up to 1955.”

Wikipedia article Villa Providence, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Broward County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1924.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 324 SW. 2nd Ave., Hallandale Beach, 33009
  • When was it listed? December 2013
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Hallandale Beach
  • When was it built? 1924
  • National Register reference number. 13000962 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1947 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 47 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Villa Providence, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Villa Providence, surveyed 1947

Fires near this property

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Villa Providence between 1993 and 2018, burning about 35 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 May 2015Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMEMORIAL (6)
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA (13)
24 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA
2 March 2018Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBANJO (13)
15 March 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 February 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Villa Providence: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dania PitPeat, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hollywood Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sterling Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Big Cypress PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Main QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Monarch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Snake Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Broward County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hollywood Boulevard Historic Business District2.0 miles1999
Hollywood Garden Club2.3 miles2005
Hammerstein House2.4 miles2005
Hollywood Woman's Club2.5 miles1995
Joseph Wesley Young House2.5 miles1989
Nyberg-Swanson House4.8 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000962 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broward CountyAll 39 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.