Detail: 1360 Collins Ave Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

domestic building

Location

Address:

1360 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:

02-3234-008-0890

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

7,000 SQ FT

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

53S / 42E / 34

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Commodore Hotel

Current name:

Commodore 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:

Henry Hohauser

Developer:

Builder:

General Builders (Theodore Klein)

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:

Art Deco

Style, Secondary:

Streamlined Moderne

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Continuous eyebrows rounded at corners; Rounded northeast building corner; Horizontal banding at every floor level; Pronounced horizontal banding at cornice and below second and third floor level windows; Windows curve at rounded building corner; Porthole-shaped ornamentation (concentric low-relief circles); Porthole windows at porch level; Glass block ornamentation; Interior and exterior multi-colored terrazzo floor designs; "Commodore" signage at rounded building corner; Slightly stepped ziggurat parapet roofline at rounded building corner

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Concrete Block Stucco

Foundation:

Spread footing

Basement:

Building Size:

44' 10" x 131' 6"

Square footage/meters:

14,615 (adjusted)

Roof Configuration:

Flat

Roof Material

replacement

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

parapet walls

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:

Jalousie

Window remarks:

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Recessed porch extends the length of the east elevation and wraps around the building's northeast corner, extending slightly across the north elevation; Stuccoed wall balustrade ornamented with large areas of glass block; Raised two steps off ground level; Entrance along the east elevation; Porthole windows; Terrazzo floor design

Porch Height, Stories:

single-story

Porch Configuration:

wrap-around

Porch Type:

open porch

Porch Roof Shape:

integrated (under the main)

Porch Roof Material:

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Round Fluted stuccoed posts on

Porch Piers (lower):

round stuccoed piers

Primary entryway:

Primary entryway is on the northern end of the east elevation, directly across from the porch steps; Glass double door framed in wood with rectangular fixed window directly above; Doorway framed by two large round and fluted columns that sit halfway between the door and porch steps

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?:

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Alterations?

Yes

Date of major alterations:

1989

Nature of alterations:

Partial demolition with interior and exterior remodeling (Daniel M. Estevill)

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:

2/28/2013

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:	25.7851783122533100
Longitude:	-80.1309587288360500
UTM:	Zone 17R 587131.2860 mE, 2852181.5038 mN
Datum	WGS84

Commodore Hotel on the southwest corner of Collins Avenue and 14th street

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

Commodore Hotel north elevation (view when facing south on 14th street)

Commodore Hotel northeast corner ornamentation

Porch along the east elevation of the Commodore Hotel

Porch along the north elevation of the Commodore Hotel

Primary entryway on the east elevation of the Commodore Hotel

Porthole windows on the porch of the Commodore Hotel

Terrazzo floor design and columns on the porch of the Commodore Hotel

Glassblock ornamentation along the porch of the Commodore Hotel

Terrazzo floor design on the interior of the Commodore Hotel

Attached Files

1360_COLLINS_AV.pdf

1360 Collins Ave Miami Beach, Florida USA

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