Detail: 650 Ocean Dr Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

domestic building

Location

Address:

650 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:

02-4203-004-0020

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:

Hotel Imperial

Current name:

Imperial Hotel

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1930-1939

Construction Date Certainty:

documented

Known Construction Date:

1939

Source for Known Construction Date:

Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser

Architect/Designer:

L. Murray Dixon

Developer:

Builder:

J.O. Blumenthal

Significant Owner(s):

Historical Summary:

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 tripartite primary facade; Stepped ziggurat parapet roofline; Horizontal banding at cornice and corner windows; Continuous wrap-around eyebrows rounded at corners; Multi-colored terrazzo floor designs in the interior and on the porch; Slight use of glass block; Two mirroring fine bass relief "fountain" carvings in narrow rectangles that extend from the second floor level to just below the roofline ornament the central bay; Three masonry portholes at apex of ziggurat roofline (center bay); Bow fluted spandrels in center bay above, below and in-between second and third floor level windows; Porch railing design alternates between curved balustrade and solid wall with portholes

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Concrete Block Stucco

Foundation:

Spread footing

Basement:

none

Building Size:

39' 10" x 129' 10"

Square footage/meters:

15,237 (adjusted)

Roof Configuration:

Flat with parapet

Roof Material

replacement

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

stucco

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

replacement aluminum

Window Panes/Lights:

Window Type:

Jalacy Casement

Window remarks:

At the second and third floor levels on the primary facade, two adjoining casement windows in each bay

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Porch is particularly distinguishable for it's highly ornamented terrazzo floor designs and highly ornamented balustrade that includes curvilinear design and portholes

Porch Height, Stories:

single-story

Porch Configuration:

full-span

Porch Type:

open porch

Porch Roof Shape:

integrated (under the main)

Porch Roof Material:

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

fluted stuccoed posts on

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Glass double-doors framed in dark wood; Directly centered on east elevation; Primary entryway is particularly grand because of the unique terrazzo floor designs on either side of the door that are quite unlike the designs of many other buildings

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Domestic: Hotel

Present Function:

Domestic: Hotel

Function remarks:

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:

General Condition:

Good

Moved or Relocated?:

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Alterations?

Date of major alterations:

Nature of alterations:

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:

1/23/2013

Surveyed By:

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:	25.7765067540354700
Longitude:	-80.1316485251312500
UTM:	Zone 17R 587068.4536 mE, 2851220.6873 mN
Datum	WGS84

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

Porch at the Hotel Imperial (view when walking south on the west side of Ocean Drive)

Balustrade delimiting the porch at the Hotel Imperial

Terrazzo floor design on the porch at the Hotel Imperial

Primary entryway and terrazzo floor designs at the Hotel Imperial

Terrazzo floor design in the entrance to the Hotel Imperial

Terrazzo floor design just before the entrance to the Hotel Imperial

Attached Files

650_OCEAN_DR.pdf

650 Ocean Dr Miami Beach, Florida USA

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