Overtown

Overtown is home to several historic churches and landmarks, including the Lyric Theater (Miami), Greater Bethel AME Church, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and St. Agnes Episcopal. Other places of interest include the reconstructed and historically accurate Dorsey House, the Old Black Police Precinct Museum, the Overtown Public Library (with its exterior walls adorned with paintings by Overtown's famous urban expressionist painter, Purvis Young), and L. E. Thomas Building, home of the first black magistrate in Miami.