Detail: 1111 Collins Ave Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

domestic building

Location

Address:

1111 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:

02-4203-203-0001

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

54S / 42E / 03

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Tudor Hotel

Current name:

Tudor 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:

Prufert-Wien Construction Company

Significant Owner(s):

Sidney A. Wien (original)

Historical Summary:

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Collins Avenue Hotel

Style, Primary:

Art Deco

Style, Secondary:

Streamlined Moderne

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Symmetrical tripartite facade design with southwest corner of the building as the center; Continuous eyebrows rounded at corners; Building itself is rounded at its southwest corner; Ziggurat parapet roofline; "Tudor Hotel" neon signage poised vertically and rises far above roofline; Vertical stripes in fluted pilasters on either side of central bay (building's corner); Interior and exterior multi-colored terrazzo floor designs; Low-relief horizontal banding beneath second and third floor level windows and along cornice; Pink (exterior) and green (interior) oolitic limestone veneer heavily used as ornamentation.

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Concrete Block Stucco

Foundation:

Spread footing

Basement:

Building Size:

82' 4" x 134' 8"

Square footage/meters:

32,500 (approximate)

Roof Configuration:

Flat with parapet

Roof Material

replacement

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

Oolitic limestone

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

stucco

Notes on exterior materials:

Extensive use of pink coral stone as decorative veneer on the southwest corner of the building's facade, around the primary entryway on the porch, along the wall lining the porch as well as the porch balustrade; Extensive use of green coral rock along the walls of the lobby areas

Principal Windows::

replacement aluminum

Window Panes/Lights:

Window Type:

casements

Window remarks:

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Wrap-around porch recessed into the western half of the south elevation and wraps around slightly to the west elevation; Highly ornate multi-colored terrazzo floor designs; Pink coral stone veneer; Surrounded by large balustrade with large blocks of the same pink coral stone and evenly-spaced patterns of three adjoining masonry portholes flanked on either side by fluting in the coral rock; Top and bottom of the balustrade are also of low-relief, creating horizontal banding

Porch Height, Stories:

single-story

Porch Configuration:

corner wrap-around

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 at the southwest corner of the building on the northeast corner of Collins Avenue and 11th street; Three low steps framed by two fluted rectangular columns lead up to the porch and directly to the primary entryway; Double door framed in pink coral stone; On the floor just before the primary entryway is a geometric multi-colored terrazzo floor design and the address of the building ("1111") in the floor.

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Domestic: Hotel

Present Function:

Domestic: Hotel

Function remarks:

Hotel now functions as a timeshare building

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:

1952/1958

Nature of alterations:

Conversion of select hotel rooms into apartment units

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:

2/6/2013

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:	25.7819575022662000
Longitude:	-80.1313482668647900
UTM:	Zone 17R 587094.5809 mE, 2851824.5468 mN
Datum	WGS84

Tudor Hotel on the northeast corner of Collins Avenue and 11th street

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

Tudor Hotel south elevation (view when facing north on 11th street)

Tudor Hotel primary entryway on the northeast corner of Collins Avenue and 11th street

Primary entryway on the porch of the Tudor Hotel

Terrazzo floor design on the porch of the Tudor Hotel

Porch along the south elevation at the Tudor Hotel (view facing east)

Porch along the south elevation at the Tudor Hotel (view facing west)

Balustrade along the porch of the Terrazzo floor design on the porch of the Tudor Hotel

Terrazzo floor design and stone veneer in the lobby of the Tudor Hotel

Staircase in the lobby of the Tudor Hotel

Terrazzo floor design in the lobby of the Tudor Hotel

Terrazzo floor design deeper into the Tudor Hotel

Attached Files

1111_COLLINS_AV.pdf

1111 Collins Ave Miami Beach, Florida USA

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