Built in 1101 (Romanesque architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.
From the record
“Bernard de Clairvaux Church is a medieval Spanish monastery cloister which was built in the town of Sacramenia in Segovia, Spain, in the 12th century but dismantled in the 20th century and shipped to New York City in the United States. It was eventually reassembled at 16711 West Dixie Highway, North Miami Beach, Florida, where it is now an Episcopal church and tourist attraction called Ancient Spanish Monastery.”
Wikipedia article St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 191 National Register listings published here for Miami-Dade County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1101, Romanesque architecture.
National Register reference number.72000307- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
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.
19471994
Fires near this property
14 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Old Spanish Monastery
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 31 acres in total. None 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 maintenance
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
North Miami Beach, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 waterspout.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to a man struck by lightning at NE 163 Street and 10th Avenue in North Miami Beach. The victim was transported to Jackson North Hospital.
Very heavy rains caused roads to be closed in multiple locations across North Miami Beach, with numerous reports of water-filled cars stalled at underpasses. ||Media also reported a few businesses and apartments in North Miami and North Miami Beach with water intrusion.
Several sources including the broadcast media, local storm spotters and city officials reported severe flooding from a nearly stationary thunderstorm across the northeast portion of Miami-Dade County extending northward into the Hollywood area of southeast Broward County. The first report was from the media of impassable roads in the Waterways section of Aventura, north of Aventura Mall at 4:53 PM EDT with reports several minutes later from the media relayed from the Aventura Police Department that over 50 vehicles were disabled in that same area. A trained spotter at the same time reported disabled vehicles and impassable roads near NE 170th St. and NE 15th Ave. in North Miami. Several reports of flooding were received between 5:30 PM and 9 PM EDT across the same areas. Severe flooding was reported in the 1200 block of NE 144 Street which required the relocation of 24 families. City officials in Golden Beach of northeast Miami-Dade County reported hundreds of people stranded in their vehicles. An off-duty NWS employee also reported significant flooding in his condominium parking garage in Aventura. A South Florida Water Management District rain gauge recorded 13.15 inches of rain in North Miami Beach at 5:53 PM EDT with storm total at the same gauge by 9 PM EDT recording 13.94 inches. Other rainfall reports received were 11.71 inches at the FIU Biscayne Campus in North Miami Beach and 9.89 inches at North Miami/Keystone Point.
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.
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.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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