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Source: Vol. II  pg.79  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present  

        H. GEORGE FINK, A. I. A.  A resident of Miami since boyhood, H. GEORGE
FINK returned to the city after qualifying himself by long experience and study 
for the profession of architecture, and has performed a distinctive service in
expressing the modern ideals of architecture in many of the best business,
public and private structures erected in and around Miami.
	His father, R. K. FINK, has been one of the constructive financiers and
property owners in Miami, where he has lived since 1905. He was one of the
first purchasers of real estate with a view to future development. One of his
purchases was the present post office building site at the northwest corner of
Northeast First Street and Northeast First Avenue. He paid something over
$3,000 for this ground, and later sold it to the Government for $25,000. Other
investments turned out almost equally well and are evidence of the rapid growth
of the city. He built and is owner of the Fink Apartments.
	H. GEORGE FINK was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, son of R. K. and 
TENIA (FISHER) FINK, natives of the same state. Mr. Fink finished his public 
school education in Miami, but his education for architecture was entirely
self-earned. Until he was twenty he worked as a clerk in the local post office, and
then removed to Philadelphia, where he found work to support him while getting his
higher education. He took both academic and technical courses in the University of
Pennsylvania, and studied architecture in Drexel Institute. In Drexel Institute he
attended almost altogether night classes. For four years in Philadelphia it was
literally true that he studied both night and day to fit himself for his chosen
career. The subsequent success as an architect that he has won had been richly
deserved.
	Mr. Fink had for some years been a member of the American Institute of Architects,
membership in this organization being bestowed only upon architects of recognized
standing. He began his professional career at Miami in 1916. Among the many
buildings of the better class designed by him there are the Miami Beach First
National Bank, Miami Beach Public School, H. N. 
earned. Until he was twenty he worked as a clerk in the local post office, and
then removed to Philadelphia, where he found work to support him while getting
his higher education. He took both academic and technical courses in the
University of Pennsylvania, and studied architecture in Drexel Institute. In
Drexel Institute he attended almost altogether night classes. For four years in
Philadelphia it was literally true that he studied both night and day to fit
himself for his chosen career. The subsequent success as an architect that he
has won had been richly deserved.
	Mr. Fink had for some years been a member of the American Institute of 
Architects, membership in this organization being bestowed only upon architects 
of recognized standing. He began his professional career at Miami in 1916. 
Among the many buildings of the better class designed by him there are the 
Miami Beach First National Bank, Miami Beach Public School, H. N. Pancoast 
residence, Columbia Building, the First Christian Church, Del Rio Apartments, 
the Fink Apartments. He was selected as the designer of the Miami Beach 
boundary marker on the causeway, and has planned and is the architect for many 
of the individual improvements marking the developments of one of Miami’s 
finest residential suburbs, Coral Gables. He is a master of the style of 
architecture best fitted to harmonize the topography, climate and other natural 
conditions of Florida with artificial building construction. Besides his 
membership in the American Institute of Architects he is a member of the 
Florida Association of Architects, the Miami Society of Architects, and acted 
as an advisor to the Park Planning in the development of the Miami’s Bay Front. 
He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Ad Club, the Benevolent and 
Protective Order of Elks, and the Lodge and Dramatic Order of the Knights of
Pythias
Pythias.
	Mr. Fink married Miss JOSIE HINTON, a native of this state, who was 
educated here and is a brilliant young woman of much ability and literary 
execution. She has written both prose and poetry, including a number of lyrics, 
three of which were set to music and played by Pryor’s Band. Mr. and Mrs. Fink
have two children, FAY C. and H. GEORGE, Jr.


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