February 6th, 2014
If Jay Gatsby needed a retreat from the lavishly loud parties on Long Island, no other hotel could accommodate him better than the legendary Roney Plaza Hotel on Miami Beach.
The Roney Plaza was located between 23rd and 24th Streets on Collins Avenue. Before the mega hotel industry explosion on Miami Beach, the Roney Plaza was place to be during the winter season each year Read More...
Tags: Burdine's, Collins Avenue, Giralda Tower, Mediterranean Revival, Miami 1920s Land Boom Era, Miami Beach, N.B.T. Roney, Roney Plaza Hotel, Schultze & Weaver
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January 30th, 2014
The show will go on for the Coconut Grove Playhouse located on the cusp of the Grove’s downtown retail district on Main Highway. It was announced early in 2014 that the Miami-Dade County $20 million bond set aside for the Playhouse restoration took effect, opening the doors for Florida International University (FIU) and the county to lease the Playhouse from the State of Florida Read More...
Tags: A Streetcar Named Desire, Alfred Browning Parker, Coconut Grove Playhouse, D.W. Griffith’s Sorrows of Satan, El Jardin, GableStage, George Engle, Inc., Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotton, Kiehnel & Elliott, Mediterranean Revival, Miami’s Land Boom Era, Paramount Enterprises, Players State Theater, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Spanish Baroque-style, Tallulah Bankhead, Tennessee Williams
Posted in Alfred Browning Parker, Architects, Coconut Grove, Kiehnel & Elliott, Mediterranean Revival, Neighborhoods, Preservation, Videos |
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July 10th, 2013
Casa Casuarina wouldn't be a bad title for a telenovela; the Mediterranean Revival mansion on Ocean Drive is certainly photogenic enough to serve as the setting for a soap. And the house's history is dramatic enough to provide plotlines for one or two long-running dramas.
The fortune that built the mansion dissolved into bankruptcy almost as the house's gates first swung open Read More...
Tags: Alcazar de Colon, Alden Freeman, Amsterdam Palace, Andrew Cunanan, architecture, bankruptcy, building, Casa Casuarina, Donatella Versace, Eisenhower Modern, Gianni Versace, historic, historic preservation, history, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Mediterranean Revival, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Dade College, Miami-Dade County, murder, Ocean Drive, pool deck, Revere Hotel, Santo Domingo, South Beach, The Villa By Barton G., Wolfson Archives
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April 26th, 2013
Learning From Miami's survey of Miami's architectural history reveals several architectural styles that may be familiar, such as Mediterranean Revival, Art Deco and MiMo, also known as Miami Modern -- our region's tropically-spiced variety of the International Style. Looking through the historical record, we sometimes come across peculiar stylistic juxtapositions, as one style overtakes another in popularity Read More...
Tags: 1920s, 1954, 1959, addition, advertisement, architecture, building, Channel 4, Columbus Hotel, film, film archives, glass-enclosed restaurant, historic, historic preservation, history, International Style, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Mediterranean Revival, Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami Modern, Miami News, Miami-Dade County, MiMo, restaurant, Top O' the Columbus, video, Wolfson Archives, WTVJ
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