Detail: 1423 Collins Ave Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

domestic building

Location

Address:

1423 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:

02-3234-008-0690

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

9,548 SQ FT

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

53S / 42E / 34

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

The President

Current name:

The President

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1930-1939

Construction Date Certainty:

documented

Known Construction Date:

1936

Source for Known Construction Date:

Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser

Architect/Designer:

L. Murray Dixon

Developer:

Builder:

Harry Sayle

Significant Owner(s):

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:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Symmetrical tripartite facade design; Windows on central bay boxed by slightly protruding mass; Horizontal banding on outer part of central bay as well as around all windows at the second and third floor levels; Pronounced horizontal banding at cornice; Three low-relief porthole on central bay just above first floor level; Interior and exterior terrazzo floor designs; Corner windows at second and third floor levels; Slightly stepped ziggurat roofline (central bay extends up a bit higher than the outside bays); Pink coral stone veneer on wall lining porch; Low-relief panels between central bay windows at second and third floor levels; "The President" signage centered on west elevation, directly above first floor level

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Concrete Block Stucco

Foundation:

Reinforced Concrete

Basement:

Building Size:

58' x 130'

Square footage/meters:

23,698 (adjusted)

Roof Configuration:

Flat with parapet

Roof Material

replacement

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

Coral stone

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

stucco

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

replacement aluminum

Window Panes/Lights:

Window Type:

Jalacy

Window remarks:

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Protruding full-span porch runs along the west elevation; Raised four steps off ground level, with entrance centered on porch; Pink coral stone veneer lines porch wall; Six evenly spaced ovular pilasters frame the porch wall; Simple balustrade with rectangular areas of staggered, stacked cylinders

Porch Height, Stories:

Porch Configuration:

full-span

Porch Type:

open porch

Porch Roof Shape:

None

Porch Roof Material:

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Ovular stuccoed posts on

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Primary entryway is centered on west elevation, directly across from porch entry steps; Glass double-door framed in aluminum with a large jalacy fixed window directly above; Flanked on either side by a columns of pink coral stone veneer and a protruding ovular pilaster

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:

1960

Nature of alterations:

Conversion of 44 hotel rooms into 22 apartment units

Additions?:

Yes

Date of major additions:

Addition Height:

Addition Placement:

Addition Type:

Connection

Nature of additions:

Connecting bridge between 1423 and 1421 Collins Avenue at first floor level

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:

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:	25.7860014781601520
Longitude:	-80.1306476840614400
UTM:	Zone 17R 587161.8715 mE, 2852272.8739 mN
Datum	WGS84

The President on the east side of Collins Avenue

The President west elevation (view when facing east on Collins Avenue)

The President primary facade ornamentation on the west elevation

Porch along the west elevation of The President

Balustrade along the porch of The President

Primary entryway on the porch of The President

View of the southern half of the porch at The President

Interior terrazzo floor design at The President

Attached Files

1423_COLLINS_AV.pdf

1423 Collins Ave Miami Beach, Florida USA

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