Detail: 601 Collins Ave Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

domestic building

Location

Address:

601 Collins Ave

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:

02-4203-004-0070

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

7,182 SQ FT

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

54S / 42E / 03

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Collins Hotel

Current name:

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1920-1929

Construction Date Certainty:

documented

Known Construction Date:

1924

Source for Known Construction Date:

Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser

Architect/Designer:

(none recorded)

Developer:

Builder:

J.C. Gaffney

Significant Owner(s):

N. B. T. Roney (original)

Historical Summary:

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

irregular

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Collins Avenue Hotel

Style, Primary:

Mediterranean Revival

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Symmetrical facade design with corner door as center of design; Faux balcony at second floor level corner entry with wrought-iron railing; Arched entryway; Rough stucco walls; Clay barrel tile roof; Low-relief pilasters with finely carved bases

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Concrete Block Stucco

Foundation:

Reinforced Concrete

Basement:

Building Size:

67.6' front/35' rear x 143.75' S/104' N

Square footage/meters:

9,426 (adjusted)

Roof Configuration:

Roof Material

replacement Clay barrel tile

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:

Single-Hung sashes

Window remarks:

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

No porch

Porch Height, Stories:

Porch Configuration:

Porch Type:

Porch Roof Shape:

Porch Roof Material:

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Cut-corner entry on the northeast corner of Collins Avenue and 6th street; Doorway with thin fixed rectangular window above and arched frame around that; Arch ornamented in relief blocks

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Domestic: Hotel

Present Function:

Commerce/Trade: Specialty Store

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:

Sympathetic alterations or restoration

General Condition:

Good

Moved or Relocated?:

Yes

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Also known as 601-609 Collins Avenue and 129-145 Sixth Street

Alterations?

Date of major alterations:

Nature of alterations:

Additions?:

Yes

Date of major additions:

Addition Height:

two-story

Addition Placement:

rear

Addition Type:

Extension

Nature of additions:

Two-story extension on the east side complements, but does not copy, original design

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:

2/5/2013

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:	25.7756438849577340
Longitude:	-80.1327143521842800
UTM:	Zone 17R 586962.2084 mE, 2851124.4221 mN
Datum	WGS84

Collins Hotel on the northeast corner of Collins Avenue and 6th street

Collins Hotel west elevation (view when facing east on Collins Avenue)

Collins Hotel entire south elevation (view when facing north on 6th street)

Collins Hotel original south elevation (view when facing north on the west end of 6th street)

Collins Hotel addition south elevation (view when facing north on the east end of 6th street)

Primary entryway on the northeast corner of Collins Avenue and 6th street for the Collins Hotel

Secondary entryway for the Collins Hotel along the west elevation

Ornamentation at the second floor level along the west elevation of the Collins Hotel

Ornamentation at the second floor level along the south elevation of the Collins Hotel

Tile floor ornamentation in the retail space at the southwest corner of the Ornamentation at the second floor level along the west elevation of the Collins Hotel

Attached Files

601-609_COLLINS_AV.pdf

601 Collins Ave Miami Beach, Florida USA

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