RE Log Fall 2016

10 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2016 1949 Minna Field Burnaby , the niece of the entrepre- neur and store-founder Marshall Field, was born in Paris, raised in Washington, D.C., and Maine, and lived in England until the death of her second husband. She returned to America, bought La Brisa and attended St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. 1951 Henry and Julia Field . Minna’s son Henry was a world-renowned, Eton- and Oxford-educated anthropologist, archeologist, author and adviser to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. The Harvard-educated Julia Allen Field, who earned a PhD at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Walden University, was a lion tamer and zoo director at the Crandon Park Zoo on Key Biscayne. The Fields formed the Junior Explorers Club, inviting neighborhood kids who kept snakes and reptiles as pets. At the end of their lives, their home fell into great disrepair. 1993 James and Sheila Gray restored the property, adding a brick patio and flagstone tile, and trans- forming the rooms inside the mansion by 1995. 1997 Ryan Investment LTD La Brisa Julie and Juliana Field Seminole visitors to Scrububs Residence of Kirk Munroe Julia Allen Field 2008 La Brisa LLC 2016 Ransom Everglades School Source: From Scrububs to La Brisa: A History of the Property and Residence, 3551 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, Florida, by Arva Moore Parks and Ilana Dawn Drucker; and Miami-Dade real-estate records.