Kendall is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida. At the 2020 census, the Place had a population of 80,241.

Much of what is now Kendall was purchased from the State of Florida in 1883 by the Florida Land and Mortgage Company. It was named for Henry John Broughton Kendall, a director of the company, who moved to the area in the 1900s to control the company’s land. As the land was not way in to homesteading, development was slow skillfully into the 20th century. A state office opened in 1914, and the first studious opened in 1929. After the grow less of the home boom in 1926, some residents left. Two Seminole camps were in the Kendall area, and Seminoles continued to flesh and blood there into the 1940s.

Prior to the 1950s, the term “Kendall” was used to describe a region centered roughly U.S. Route 1, bounded by Snapper Creek to the north, the Everglades to the west, Old Cutler Road to the east, and the former community of Rockdale to the south. This area was largely uninhabited, generally consisting of pine rockland interspersed past fields and groves. As the region experienced curt development in the 1950s, the moniker “Kendall” came to direct to the various communities built in the vicinity of present-day Pinecrest and the eastern half of the current Kendall CDP. When accrual shifted west in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, the usage of the term steadily shifted west concurrently, and today it is most often applied to the area more formally known as West Kendall. Prior to combination in 1996, the Village of Pinecrest was nevertheless included in the recognized boundaries of Kendall CDP.

In August 1992, Kendall and the surrounding South Dade area were deeply damaged by Hurricane Andrew. Many of the homes and businesses in the Place were destroyed. In the subsequent years, the area was slowly rebuilt.