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Source: Vol. II  pg.138  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        WILLIAM R. ROBBINS in early life took up the building business both as
a trade and profession, and has been engaged in some form of that constructive
activity ever since. He has been a prominent business man of Miami since 1910.
	He was born at Rainsburg, Pennsylvania, and after acquiring a public
school education he learned a branch of the building trade. For a number of
years he was in business at Eaton, Colorado, and from that city came to Miami
in 1910. Since then he has specialized in the roofing business, and since 1921
his industry has been carried on under the name of the Robbins Roofing Works,
of which he is sole proprietor.
	Mr. Robbins does a wholesale and retail business in the handling of 
standard roofing material, and is a contractor in the construction of roofs for 
all classes of structures, residence, commercial and industrial. He has built 
up a large and practical business on the principles of strictest honor and 
integrity, and the practice of these principles has given his business a 
character worth more than money. Mr. Robbins has made a long and patient study 
of the peculiar requirements of roofing materials in a climate that is almost 
tropical, and after numerous experiments he devised a system of attaching 
asphalt roofing without the use of nails, thus practically solving the problem 
of warping and the loosening of nails. He handles only the most approved brands 
of asphalt roofing in shingles, the leading line being the Ford products. The 
Tee-Lok shingle he uses in roof construction is pronounced by experts to be the
most perfect shingle contrived by inventive skill.
	Mr. Robbins’ business has kept pace with the general building record in 
Miami. He has handled the contracts for roofing on many of the largest and most 
prominent buildings. Some of these may properly be mentioned. The Fairfax 
Theater, the Buena Vista Postoffice, J. K. Dorn’s Garage, the Cadillac 
Building, Bradford Hotel, Republic Building, Anderson & Chaille Building,
various buildings at Coral Gables, including, in 1922, a contract for forty
buildings for that company, and the buildings of the Hollywood Land Company at
Hollywood.


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