Detail: 1435 Collins Ave Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

Hotel

Location

Address:

1435 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:

02-3234-012-0040

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

53S / 42E / 34

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Biarritz Hotel

Current name:

Hotel Henrosa

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1930-1939

Construction Date Certainty:

documented

Known Construction Date:

1935

Source for Known Construction Date:

Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser

Architect/Designer:

Harry O. Nelson

Developer:

Builder:

Building Corp. of Florida (A.S. Dunham)

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:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Asymmetrical facade design; Continuous eyebrows rounded at corners and first and third floor levels; Vertical racing stripes across west elevation; "Hotel Henrosa" vertical neon signage on west elevation; "Henrosa" neon signage centered above primary entryway; Stretched octagonal porthole relief at first floor level, to the north of the primary entryway

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Concrete Block Stucco

Foundation:

Reinforced Concrete

Basement:

Building Size:

49' 6" x 106'

Square footage/meters:

15,297 (adjusted)

Roof Configuration:

Flat with parapet

Roof Material

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:

Jalacy

Window remarks:

Many windows in the vacant hotel are empty, with some jalacy windows remaining in place

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

No porch

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 hotel is located on the protruding part of the building on the west elevation (the new lobby entrance added in 1951 by architect Harry O. Nelson); Glass double-door framed in aluminum with fixed glass window above; Primary entryway for the commercial space is on the northernmost end of the west elevation

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Domestic: Hotel

Present Function:

Commerce/Trade: Specialty Store

Function remarks:

Present Function: Hotel is under renovations

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:

1950

Nature of alterations:

20' x 12' new partition in card room

Additions?:

Yes

Date of major additions:

1951

Addition Height:

Three-story

Addition Placement:

front

Addition Type:

Extension

Nature of additions:

6' x 10' x 35' New lobby entrance and roof over terrace (Harry O. Nelson, architect)

Endangered / Threatened

Endangered by:

Endangered/Threatened remarks:

Recommendations:

Contact:

Tourism / Featured Destination

Open to the public:

Yes

Contact information, Hours, and Amenities:

Note: Only the currently operational business on the northernmost end of the building is currently 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:

3/5/2013

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:	25.7867949999999980
Longitude:	-80.1305329963646000
UTM:	Zone 17R 587172.7905 mE, 2852360.8311 mN
Datum	WGS84

Hotel Henrosa on the east side of Collins Avenue

Hotel Henrosa second floor level ornamentation

Neon signage on the west elevation of the Hotel Henrosa

Primary entryways along the west elevation of the Hotel Henrosa

Primary hotel entryway on the west elevation of the Hotel Henrosa

Attached Files

1435_COLLINS_AV.pdf

1435 Collins Ave Miami Beach, Florida USA

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