 Mark C. Honeywell, a wealthy industrialist and his wife who owned the island off their house in the Miami beach, built the structures as part of his development plan after he bought the island in 1937, and built up the structures between 1937 and 1940.; however, the building built between 1937 and 1939 do not exist now.The Honeywells built it as their holiday resort.They built many structures which included a chapel, a lighthouse, a pavilion for holding picnic, a generator room, and also a garage.