Detail: 1119 Collins Ave Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

domestic building

Location

Address:

1119 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:

02-4203-210-0001

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:

Palmer House

Current name:

Palmer House

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-Wein Construction Company

Significant Owner(s):

Palmer Realty Company (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:

Asymmetrical facade design; Multi-colored terrazzo floor designs (interior and exterior); Ziggurat roofline at northwest corner of building; Parapet roofline; Continuous eyebrows rounded at building's corners; "Palmer House" vertical signage at northern end of west elevation; Vertical stripes in the form of medium-relief fluting just to the south of the "Palmer House" signage; Lighthouse finial at northwest corner of building; Green oolitic limestone as ornamenting veneer around primary entryway; Low-relief star-shaped ornamentation along cornice of west elevation.

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Concrete Block Stucco

Foundation:

Spread footing

Basement:

Building Size:

51' 6" x 134' 6"

Square footage/meters:

20,500 (adjusted)

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:

Green coral stone used ornamenting veneer surrounding primary entryway area

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:

Porch is not recessed into the building; Porch extends across the entire west elevation, wraps around the southwest building corner, and continues across the west side of the south elevation; Multi-colored terrazzo floor designs; Simple metal railing; West elevation portion of the porch is shaded by an eyebrow that extends out from just above the first floor level of the building; South elevation portion of the porch is unshaded.

Porch Height, Stories:

single-story

Porch Configuration:

wrap-around

Porch Type:

open porch

Porch Roof Shape:

flat

Porch Roof Material:

Stuccoed

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

fluted stuccoed posts on

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Primary entryway is on the northern end of the west elevation portion of the porch; Up three short steps from the ground level; Entryway is covered in green oolitic limestone; "PH" terrazzo floor design just in front of the primary doorway; Double-door with fixed transom window ornamented with the same metalwork design as on the porch; Primary entryway framed by two large fluted columns covered in the green oolitic limestone.

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:

Sympathetic alterations or restoration

General Condition:

Good

Moved or Relocated?:

Yes

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Previously also known as 1121 Collins Avenue

Alterations?

Date of major alterations:

1955

Nature of alterations:

Remodeling of 22 hotel rooms into 11 one bedroom/two bath 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:	25.7822024391778900
Longitude:	-80.1312905429222200
UTM:	Zone 17R 587100.1900 mE, 2851851.7113 mN
Datum	WGS84

Palmer House on the east side of Collins Avenue

Detailed view of the northwest corner of the Palmer House

Primary entryway on the west elevation of the Palmer House

Terrazzo floor design just infront of the primary entryway at the Palmer House

Terrazzo floor design in the lobby of the Palmer House

Marble veneer used on the walls in the lobby of the Palmer House

Southwest corner of the porch at the Palmer House

Portion of the porch that runs along the south elevation of the Palmer House

Terrazzo floor design on the south elevation porch of the Palmer House

Signage on the west elevation of the Palmer House

Attached Files

1119_1121_COLLINS_AV.pdf

1119 Collins Ave Miami Beach, Florida USA

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