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Miami Shores is an incorporated village in Miami-Dade County whose official charter name is actually "Miami Shores Village."

The village began as the small community of Biscayne, founded in the 1870s by William H. Gleason and William H. Hunt, decades before Miami itself existed.

In 1924, the Shoreland Company bought up the area's farmland and developed it as a Mediterranean-style suburb promoted as "America's Mediterranean," which is why so many of its homes are Mediterranean Revival in style.

Miami Shores withdrew from the City of Miami during the Great Depression and incorporated as its own village on January 2, 1932.

The 2020 census counted 11,567 residents in Miami Shores, up from 10,493 in 2010, living in just over 3,100 households.

Out of the 108 places in Miami-Dade County listed on the National Register of Historic Places, 25 of them are located in tiny Miami Shores.

Miami Shores is home to Barry University, a private Catholic university founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters as a women's college, whose 122-acre main campus makes it one of the largest Catholic universities in the Southeast.

Today Miami Shores is almost purely a single-family bedroom community, with only two small commercial strips along Northeast 2nd Avenue and Biscayne Boulevard, and about a third of the village's 3.75 square miles is water.

Miami Shores was recognized as a Tree City USA in 1989 for its dense, mature tree canopy.