Detail: 1300 Collins Ave Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

Hotel

Location

Address:

1300 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:

02-3234-008-0940

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

21,000 SQ FT

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

53S / 42E / 34

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Alamac Hotel

Current name:

Alamac Apartments

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1930-1939

Construction Date Certainty:

documented

Known Construction Date:

1934

Source for Known Construction Date:

Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser

Architect/Designer:

V.H. Nellenbogen

Developer:

Builder:

O'Neill and Orr Construction Company

Significant Owner(s):

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:

Mediterranean Revival

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Symmetrical tripartite facade design; Archway and arched windows/doors; Clay barrel tile roof; Wrought-iron fixtures; Spanish tile flooring; Decorative balconettees on the outer bays of the sixth floor level and center bay of the seventh floor level; Rough stucco walls

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Concrete Block Stucco

Foundation:

Reinforced Concrete

Basement:

Building Size:

118' x 59'

Square footage/meters:

44,592 (adjusted)

Roof Configuration:

Built-up

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:

Window remarks:

Single-hung sash windows occur most frequently on the third through seventh floor levels, while jalacy casement windows with fixed arched windows above occur on the first and second floor levels

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

No distinctive porch; Entryway up a flight of stairs, combined with the addition of handicapped accessible ramps has created an open patio-like space on the southern end of the east elevation

Porch Height, Stories:

Porch Configuration:

Porch Type:

Porch Roof Shape:

Porch Roof Material:

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Primary entryway for the residences is up a grand flight of stairs on the southern end of the east elevation; Glass double door with fixed arched window above; Flanked on either side by wrought-iron fixtures and ornamentation; Separate entryways exist for each of the retail spaces on the first floor level of the northern end of the east elevation

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Domestic: Hotel

Present Function:

Domestic: Multiple Dwelling

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?

Date of major alterations:

Nature of alterations:

Additions?:

Yes

Date of major additions:

1955

Addition Height:

Addition Placement:

rear

Addition Type:

Recreation

Nature of additions:

20' x 40' Pool

Endangered / Threatened

Endangered by:

Endangered/Threatened remarks:

Recommendations:

Contact:

Tourism / Featured Destination

Open to the public:

Yes

Contact information, Hours, and Amenities:

Only retail spaces on the northern end of the east elevation at the first floor level are open to the public

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:

2/28/2013

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:	25.7843428104782750
Longitude:	-80.1310899275779900
UTM:	Zone 17R 587118.7416 mE, 2852088.8865 mN
Datum	WGS84

Alamac Apartments on the northwest corner of Collins Avenue and 13th Street

Alamac Apartments south elevation (view when facing north on 13th street)

Alamac Apartments east elevation (view when facing west on Collins Avenue)

Entryway on the southern end of the east elevation of the Alamac Apartments

Primary entryway at the Alamac Apartments

Primary private doorway on the east elevation of the Alamac Apartments

Retail space on the east elevation of the Alamac Apartments

Ornamentation on the east elevation of the Alamac Apartments

Attached Files

1300-1310_COLLINS.pdf

1300 Collins Ave Miami Beach, Florida USA

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