The Society of American Travel Writers Names Deering Estate at Cutler as a Recipient of the 2004 Phoenix Award

The Society of American Travel Writers has named Deering Estate at Cutler a recipient of the 2004 Phoenix Award in recognition of its outstanding efforts in preservation and conservation. The Phoenix Award was created to acknowledge individuals, communities and organizations’ contributions to a quality travel experience through conservation, preservation, beautification or environmental efforts.

“Because tourism leaves permanent ‘footprints,’ some harmful to the environment, some destroying the reasons for traveling, the Society of American Travel Writers in 1969 created an award to recognize conservation and preservation efforts of individuals and organizations,” said former SATW President Len Barnes.

Deering Estate, a Miami-Dade County Park and South Florida tourist attraction is a cultural and educational facility flourishing with unique and natural beauty. The Estate features two grand and historical houses dating from 1896 to 1922 and a Tequesta Indian burial mound dating from around the year 1600. The 450-acre park offers visitors informative natural area and house tours of South Florida’s earliest structures and architecture. As an environmental, archaeological, historical and architectural preserve, it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The park encompasses a globally endangered pine rockland habitat as well as coastal tropical hardwood rockland hammocks, mangrove forests, salt marshes, a coastal dune island and the submerged resources of Biscayne Bay. For more information, visit www.deeringestate.com

Deering Estate shares the 2004 Phoenix Award with The San Francisco Ferry Building, The International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin, The Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area in Yuma, Arizona, and The Southwest School of Art and Craft in San Antonio, Texas.

In its 49th year, the Society of American Travel Writers is a non-profit professional association of writers, editors, photographers, electronic media journalists and public relations representatives. For more information on SATW visit www.satw.org

January 31, 2005   Posted in: United States SouthEast