Aerial survey · USDA NAIP · public domainThe last surviving pioneer-era commercial building in Miami-Dade County, vacant since Hurricane Andrew, where screaming and lights with no power source have been reported since the 1970s
15700 SW 232nd St, Homestead, FL 33031
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Drive-by exterior viewing from public road only; building is privately owned and vacant
Access
Wheelchair OK
Flat agricultural road; exterior viewable from sidewalk/roadside
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1912 · National Register of Historic Places · Last Surviving Pioneer-Era Commercial Building in Miami-Dade County · Dade Heritage Trust Most Endangered Sites
The building at 15700 Southwest 232nd Street stands at the intersection of Silver Palm and Newton roads in the Redland district of Miami-Dade County. William Anderson, an Indiana native who came south to work for Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway, established his general store around 1911; the present two-story wood-frame structure was built for him in 1912 by a contractor identified in records only as Mr. Rawls.
The store served a function that is easy to understate: before it opened, Redland residents had to travel roughly fifteen miles by horse and buggy to Cutler for supplies. Anderson stocked an inventory range that ran from dynamite to lace. The building operated as a merchandise store through the 1930s, when it was converted to apartments. Anderson died in 1961; his son sold the property in 1970 to James and Eleanor Cothron.
The building was condemned in 1975 but received rehabilitation funding and reopened as the Harvest House restaurant before Hurricane Andrew struck in August 1992. The storm blew the roof off and knocked the second floor out of plumb. Miami-Dade County approved $255,000 in restoration grants; steel stabilization columns were installed and a new roof added, but the property changed hands again in 1997 when it was sold to Brian Simmons and Jessica Olsen, who lacked the capital for full restoration. The building has remained vacant since.
As of 2019, Anderson's Corner appeared on the Dade Heritage Trust's Most Endangered Historic Sites list. It is the last surviving pioneer-era commercial structure in Miami-Dade County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1977.
Sources
The haunted tradition at Anderson's Corner is rooted in the building's residential period after the store closed. In the 1970s, a resident named Beulah Glenn began documenting phenomena in the locked upper floor: lights turning on and off without a working power source, unexplained noises from rooms she knew were empty. The account culminates in what the Glenn family described as a woman's voice screaming "Help! Help!" from upstairs — at which point the family moved out.
The lore attaches these phenomena to Annie, the stepdaughter of William Anderson through his marriage to Atka Harper. Annie returned to the building after her mother filed for divorce in 1936, taking up residence with William. Neighbors described her as withdrawn. She died in 1946 from what was recorded as a pill overdose; accounts vary on whether she was found on the back porch or fell from the second-story balcony. Gossip about the nature of her relationship with her stepfather circulated in the community at the time.
In 1993 and 1994, brothers identified as Hawk and David Hawkins were working on restoration of the building when they reported seeing visions of a young woman and disturbing scenes of abuse. When shown period photographs, they identified the figures as William Anderson and Annie. This account is oral tradition sourced through paranormal investigators, not any contemporaneous documentation.
It is worth stating plainly: the abuse allegations against William Anderson are unverified rumor that circulated in the community. Annie's death was recorded as accidental. The paranormal claims rest on these unverifiable foundations.
Notable Entities
The two-story wood-frame structure at the intersection of Silver Palm and Newton roads is visible from the road. The building has been vacant since Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and is on the Dade Heritage Trust's Most Endangered Sites list. Interior access is not permitted; the visit is an exterior pass.
Every HauntBound history is researched from documented sources. We clearly separate verified historical fact from paranormal folklore.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPTampa, FL
Fort Brooke was a U.S. Army post established in 1824 at the site of present-day downtown Tampa. When the city built a parking garage at 107 N Franklin Street in 1980, construction crews uncovered the fort's forgotten cemetery containing remains of over 100 soldiers, civilians, and Seminole Native Americans from the Second Seminole War era (1835–1842). The Seminole remains were returned to the Seminole Tribe of Florida; 102 soldiers and civilians were reinterred at Oaklawn Cemetery on March 24, 1981.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPPort St. Lucie, FL
Oak Hammock Park is a Port St. Lucie city park along the C-24 Canal containing a southern live oak associated with the 1972 murders of Collette Goodenough and Barbara Ann Wilcox by Gerard John Schaefer, a former Martin County deputy sheriff. The girls' remains were discovered at the site in January 1977. Schaefer was convicted of two earlier murders in 1973 and killed in prison in 1995.
Orlando, FL
The South Florida Railroad constructed the Orlando depot at Church Street in 1889, designed by architect T.B. Cotter in an Eclectic Victorian/Shingle Style. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, the station served passengers until 1926 when operations relocated. Entrepreneur Bob Snow opened Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium on July 19, 1974, launching an entertainment complex that at its height was Florida's fourth-largest attraction, with themed bars and restaurants across multiple historic buildings. The complex declined through the 1990s under competition from Disney and Universal; subsequent owners included Lou Pearlman, whose fraudulent schemes resulted in FBI raids in 2007. SunRail commuter service began operating from the station in 2014.