Biography of George R. Brewer, Miami, Dade County, FL

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Transcribed from:  The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. 
II, page 24, 1923.

BREWER, GEORGE R., of Miami, who handles large contracts in the line of structural steel 
material and building material of all kinds was born in Opelika, Alabama.  As a youth he 
learned the building material business, and has ever since been identified with this line.  
For a number of years he was in business at Birmingham, Alabama, as senior member of the 
firm Brewer & Scanlan.  While at Birmingham he had contracts for all the fireproof metal 
doors, and glass and glazing in the twenty-seven story Jefferson Bank Building.  His firm 
also had the glazing contract for the Lyric Theater, and carried out a number of contracts 
for furnishing the glazing and steel sash material for some of the largest industrial plants 
of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in the Birmingham district.

Mr. BREWER came to Miami in the spring of 1919 and he has established a very successful business.  
He handled the sale of structural steel and erection for the Wilson & Carruthers office building 
designed for fifteen stories; the steel for the new city docks; structural steel erection and 
steel floor joist for Ryan and Knight; Ford and Lincoln Garage; structural steel erection and 
steel joist floor construction for Central Arcade; structural steel and erection, also the metal 
doors and windows for the Fairfax Theatre; metal doors, windows and Wilson Diffuselite blinds 
for the First National Bank Building; and material for Ralston office and store building, the 
McAllister Hotel and many other modern structures.

While most of Mr. BREWER's experience has been in large jobs, he takes particular pride and 
satisfaction in handling every contract, large or small, according to the highest ideals of 
expert service.  He also does a large business in the sale and contracting of metal doors and 
windows and other fireproof work of this kind.  He knows every angle of the building construction 
industry, in fact is an expert in everything that can be done with the material he sells.

Mr. BREWER is an active member of the Miami Chamber of Commerce.  His office is at 244 Columbia 
Building, Miami, Florida.