In 1925, the city council decided to build a warehouse in the central area, close to Praça XV de Novembro. The pier extended over the sea for about twenty meters and was used for the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers from the island-continent maritime connection service. It was only in 1928 that Bar Miramar was opened in a pavilion attached to the warehouse. The building, in an eclectic architectural style, was rich in details. The border of the access portal contained neoclassical elements and insinuations in Art Deco and in the upper part of the facade a stained glass window with two massive dolphins, decorated with a scalloped platband. The Miramar Bar operated as a pastry shop, restaurant and bar. As a symbol of modernity at the time, it was frequented by the most traditional families of Florianópolis, who, in addition to meeting for tea or ice cream, took advantage of the place to follow the rowing competitions that took place nearby. Over the years and urban interventions in the region led Miramar to decay. In 1970, the building was already in a bad state of conservation, with the paint, tiles and walls totally worn out, finding itself totally abandoned. It soon became a shelter on rainy days, a whaleboat rental point, a bus stop, a car park and a meeting point for lovers. At that time, downtown Florianópolis was undergoing substantial changes, with major projects to modernize the road network through the Baia Sul landfill. Opinions on the maintenance or demolition of Miramar were divided. Faced with this situation, a group of actors from the Teatro Estudantil Catarinense tried, together with the city hall, to transform the warehouse into an arena theater. Despite having authorized it, the city government did not have the funds to recover the space. After a great campaign to collect materials, the place was partially recovered and the theater opened in 1972. However, few people attended the place and the theater was closed. On October 24, 1974 the Miramar was demolished in the face of the progress of the landfill works in the Baía Sul. On June 14, 1988, fourteen years after the demolition of Miramar, Mayor Edison Andrino launched the proposal for the reconstruction of the warehouse, creating the project “Revivendo o Miramar”. The idea of this project was to choose the best proposal to rebuild the warehouse, which would also function as a restaurant. After three years of debate, in 2001, the Memorial to Miramar was built in the same place where the Miramar Bar was located, in Fernando Machado square, keeping the design of the architectural plan of the old Miramar on the floor. The project was designed by architect Joel Pacheco, from the Florianópolis Urban Planning Institute (Ipuf), and has been criticized ever since, since the only reference to the old Miramar is the memorial's basic plan.
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