Detail: 736 Ocean Dr Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

domestic building

Location

Address:

736 Ocean Dr

City:

Miami Beach

County:

Miami-Dade

State/Province/Region:

Florida

Zip/Postal Code:

33139

Country:

USA

Other Address or Location Information:

Parcel/Tax number or land unit:

02-4203-004-0160

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

6,500 SQ FT

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

54S / 42E / 03

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Colony Hotel

Current name:

Colony Hotel

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1930-1939

Construction Date Certainty:

Known Construction Date:

1935

Source for Known Construction Date:

Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser

Architect/Designer:

Henry Hohauser

Developer:

Builder:

Saxon

Significant Owner(s):

Jos. Friedman (original)

Historical Summary:

R. Belsham (engineers)

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

rectangular

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Ocean Drive Hotel

Style, Primary:

Art Deco

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Symmetrical primary facade; Continuous wrap around eyebrows rounded at northeast and southeast corners of building; Stepped ziggurat parapet roofline; Horizontal banding; Grand vertical gesture with "Colony" signage"; Inverted "T" shaped hotel sign; Geometric wave pattern in painting just below roof line; Added neon fixtures delineating form

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Cement blocks

Foundation:

Reinforced Concrete

Basement:

Building Size:

40' x 125'

Square footage/meters:

15,016 (adjusted)

Roof Configuration:

Flat with parapet

Roof Material

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

stucco

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

Pre-cast concrete

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

replacement aluminum

Window Panes/Lights:

Window Type:

Jalacy Casement

Window remarks:

Fixed metal casement; Jalousies on side elevation windows; Large window blocks/panes on each side of main entrance of larger dimension than 2nd, 3rd and 4th story windows

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Arial narrow

Porch Height, Stories:

Porch Configuration:

Porch Type:

Porch Roof Shape:

Porch Roof Material:

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Stepped entrance with beige and green terrazzo flooring with ornamental "C" lettering; Original main lobby desk undulating in northwest corner of entrance; Original green faux marble countertops; Fireplace in entrance foyer on green colored wall with ziggurat recesses; Three horizontal white lines on top of fireplace opening

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Domestic: Hotel

Present Function:

Domestic: Hotel

Function remarks:

Other Present Function: Restaurant

Listed, Designated, or Protected Status

Status Code:

Listed at the national level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: Yes
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Miami Beach Architectural District, 1979

Designated at State/Province level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: No
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Designated Locally?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: Yes
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Ocean Drive/Collins Avenue District, 1986

Protected by ordinance or regulation?:

Yes

Protection status, remarks:

1985

Evaluation of Potential Eligibility

Rating or Rank

Recommended as a potential landmark?

Criteria:

C. Embodies distinctive physical characteristics of design, construction, or form.

Significance and Context

Theme(s)

Period of significance

Significance/Context Remarks

Area(s) of Significance

Architecture
Community Planning and Development

Ancillary Structures / Outbuildings

Number of ancillary structures / outbuildings:

Secondary structure type

Contributing to primary property?

Ancillary structures remarks or description:

Condition and Alterations

Character of modifications:

Sympathetic alterations or restoration

General Condition:

Good

Moved or Relocated?:

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Alterations?

Yes

Date of major alterations:

1953

Nature of alterations:

Replaced windows with "jalousies"

Additions?:

Date of major additions:

Addition Height:

Addition Placement:

Addition Type:

Nature of additions:

Endangered / Threatened

Endangered by:

Endangered/Threatened remarks:

Recommendations:

Contact:

Tourism / Featured Destination

Open to the public:

Yes

Contact information, Hours, and Amenities:

For Sale, Rent, or Lease

Property Classification:

Sale status:

Sale remarks:

Owner

Ownership type:

Name of Owner:

Owner Mailing Address:

Legal Description of Property/Comments:

Survey and Recorder

Authorized Resource Number or ID :

Optional Tracking or Sequence Number:

Alternate Resource ID or Key:

Survey Date:

2012

Surveyed By:

Sophie Juneau & Melinda Agron

Report Name, or Reason for Survey:

Re-survey of the district

Level of Survey:

reconnaissance

Sources, References, Bibliography

Previously Surveyed?

Yes

Name of Previous Survey:

Additional Research Recommended?

Other Sources of Information:

Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser
City of Miami Beach Planning Department records
Miami Design Preservation League records

General Remarks:

Custom / Extra Information

Finished Floor Elevation (NAVD88):

Latitude:	25.7774303000000100
Longitude:	-80.1313812901783000
UTM:	Zone 17R 587094.5758 mE, 2851323.1450 mN
Datum	WGS84

Colony Hotel east elevation (view when facing west on Ocean Drive)

Detailed view of the Colony Hotel's primary facade

Exterior terrazzo floor design at the Colony Hotel

Interior ziggurat-inspired fireplace in the lobby of the Colony Hotel

Attached Files

736_OCEAN_DR.pdf

736 Ocean Dr Miami Beach, Florida USA

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