Detail: 1000 Collins Ave Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

domestic building

Location

Address:

1000 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:

02-3234-008-1241

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

13,900 SQ FT

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

53S / 42E / 34

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Fairmont Hotel

Current name:

Fairwind Hotel

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1930-1939

Construction Date Certainty:

documented

Known Construction Date:

1936

Source for Known Construction Date:

Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser

Architect/Designer:

L. Murray Dixon

Developer:

Builder:

L. & H. Miller

Significant Owner(s):

Joseph and Ida Pinank (original)

Historical Summary:

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

rectangular

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Collins Avenue Hotel

Style, Primary:

Art Deco

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Symmetrical tripartite primary facade design; Ziggurat parapet roofline; Continuous eyebrow across east elevation and wrapping around northeast and southeast building corners; Horizontal banding at cornice; Multi-colored terrazzo floor designs; "Fairwind" large vertical signage on either side of a protruding vertical racing stripe; Glass block ornamentation on porch; Decorative sculptural bas relief panels below the second floor level windows on the outer bays of the east elevation; Shorter rounded eyebrows above primary entryway; Horizontal banding in low-relief banding around windows at first, second and third floor levels on south elevation; Central bay is slightly protruding, with signage at the center of that bay and greatly protruded

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Concrete Block Stucco

Foundation:

Reinforced Concrete

Basement:

Building Size:

40' 8" x 135'

Square footage/meters:

15,190 (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::

Window Panes/Lights:

Window Type:

Window remarks:

No windows currently in place

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Porch recessed into the east elevation of the Fairwind Hotel, wrapping slightly around the southeast corner of the building and extending beyond the north elevation of the building; Multi-colored terrazzo floor designs; Fluted columns frame the primary entryway on the porch and can be found at the far ends of the porch as well; Simple metal railing with evenly-spaced stuccoed rectangular posts

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:

Primary entryway is centered on the east elevation; Framed by two fluted columns that sit between the doorway and the steps leading up to the porch; Double-door flanked on either side by walls of fixed windows

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Domestic: Hotel

Present Function:

Work In Progress:

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?:

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Alterations?

Yes

Date of major alterations:

1987

Nature of alterations:

Interior demolishion

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:

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:	25.7807280647101180
Longitude:	-80.1317808288360400
UTM:	Zone 17R 587052.1059 mE, 2851688.1027 mN
Datum	WGS84

Fairwind Hotel on the northwest corner of Collins Avenue and 10th street

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

Fairwind Hotel south elevation (view when facing north on 10th street)

Fairwind Hotel signage with a vertical racing stripe and rounded eyebrows on the east elevation of the Fairwind Hotel

Porch along the east elevation of the Fairwind Hotel

Primary entryway along the east elevation of the Fairwind Hotel

View into the porch of the Fairwind Hotel

Glass block ornamented bar on the porch of the Fairwind Hotel

Terrazzo floor design on the porch of the Fairwind Hotel that repeats from the top of the porch steps to the doorway entry

Terrazzo floor design on the porch of the Fairwind Hotel

Attached Files

1000_COLLINS_AV.pdf

1000 Collins Ave Miami Beach, Florida USA

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