Detail: 1731 Collins Ave Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

domestic building

Location

Address:

1731 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:

02-3234-019-0480

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

53S / 42E / 34 SE

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Seacomber Hotel

Current name:

Seacomber Hotel

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1940-1949

Construction Date Certainty:

documented

Known Construction Date:

1948

Source for Known Construction Date:

City of Miami Beach Building Department records

Architect/Designer:

MacKay & Gibbs

Developer:

Builder:

Bing Kosoff Construction Co

Significant Owner(s):

Historical Summary:

The Seacomber Hotel was originally designed in 1948 with eighty four hotel rooms and eighty four bathrooms.

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Style, Primary:

Art Deco

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

ziggurat roofline; eyebrows; recessed entryway; symmetrical and tripartite facade; oolitic limestone; glass block ornamentation; vertical ornament with decorative semicircular elements on the central bay;

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Concrete Block Stucco

Foundation:

Spread footing

Basement:

Building Size:

Square footage/meters:

Roof Configuration:

Built-up

Roof Material

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

original stucco

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

original stucco

Notes on exterior materials:

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 Height, Stories:

Porch Configuration:

Porch Type:

Porch Roof Shape:

Porch Roof Material:

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

The primary entryway is a double glass door recessed on the third bay of the west elevation. The surface around the entryway is cladded in oolitic limestone. Above the entryway is a semicircular eyebrow.

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Domestic: Hotel

Present Function:

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:

Evaluation of Potential Eligibility

Rating or Rank

Recommended as a potential landmark?

Criteria:

Significance and Context

Theme(s)

Period of significance

Significance/Context Remarks

Area(s) of Significance

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:

General Condition:

Good

Moved or Relocated?:

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Alterations?

Date of major alterations:

Nature of alterations:

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:

Surveyed By:

Report Name, or Reason for Survey:

Re-survey of the district

Level of Survey:

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:

The second bay has a decorative vertical element with striping and semicircular ornaments at the top. On each side of the vertical element is a rectangular glass block ornamentation.

Latitude:	25.7930589625388220
Longitude:	-80.1295865572166100
UTM:	Zone 17R 587263.0996 mE, 2853055.1822 mN
Datum	WGS84

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

Porch on the north end of the west elevation of the Seacomber Hotel

Primary facade design on the west elevation of the Seacomber Hotel

Primary entryway along the west elevation of the Seacomber Hotel

Attached Files

1737_COLLINS_AV.pdf

1731 Collins Ave Miami Beach, Florida USA

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