Detail: 670 Collins Ave Miami Beach Florida: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

commercial building

Location

Address:

670 Collins Ave

City:

Miami Beach

County:

Miami-Dade County

State/Province/Region:

Florida

Zip/Postal Code:

33139

Country:

USA

Other Address or Location Information:

Parcel/Tax number or land unit:

02-4203-004-0720

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

3,614 SQ FT

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

54S / 42E / 03

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Current name:

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1990-1999

Construction Date Certainty:

documented

Known Construction Date:

1996

Source for Known Construction Date:

Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser

Architect/Designer:

Developer:

Builder:

Significant Owner(s):

Historical Summary:

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

square

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Commercial

Style, Primary:

Other

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Symmetrical facade designs; Evenly spaced large display windows; Clay barrel tile roof on northwest corner of building; Complements Mediterranean Revival style buildings in the community

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Foundation:

Basement:

Building Size:

Square footage/meters:

3,430 (adjusted)

Roof Configuration:

Flat

Roof Material

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

Window Panes/Lights:

Window Type:

fixed

Window remarks:

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:

Two entryways sit on either side of the northeast corner of the building

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Present Function:

Commerce/Trade: Specialty Store

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:

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:

2/1/2013

Surveyed By:

Melinda Agron

Report Name, or Reason for Survey:

Re-survey of the district

Level of Survey:

reconnaissance

Sources, References, Bibliography

Previously Surveyed?

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:	25.7768268693699600
Longitude:	-80.1326315331352200
UTM:	Zone 17R 586969.6505 mE, 2851255.4902 mN
Datum	WGS84

670 Collins Avenue on the southwest corner of Collins Avenue and 7th street

670 Collins Avenue east elevation (view when facing west on Collins Avenue)

670 Collins Avenue north elevation (view when facing south on 7th street)

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670 Collins Ave Miami Beach, Florida USA

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