Warwick Apartments

Current/Common name: Essex House

Construction date: documented 1937*

Architect: Henry Hohauser

Builder: Masterbuilt Housing Corporation

Style: Collins avenue hotel, Art Deco, Streamlined Moderne . Continuous eyebrows rounded at corners; Horizontal banding below windows and at building's corners; Low bas-relief circles and squares on parapet wall.

Open to the public: Yes. 

Historic Designation: National (Miami Beach Architectural District, 1979) ; Local (Ocean Drive/Collins Avenue District, 1986)

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Architectural Description

This is a 3-story domestic: Hotel building in the Art Deco style with Streamlined Moderne influences built in 1937. The foundation is spread footing. Exterior walls are stucco. The building has a flat with parapet roof. Windows are replacement aluminum jalacy casement. No porch No visible primary entryway from the public right of way; Building is now part of the Essex House hotel and can be accessed through the hotel's primary entryway on the northeast corner of Collins Avenue and 10th street Continuous eyebrows rounded at corners; Horizontal banding below windows and at building's corners; Low bas-relief circles and squares on parapet wall. The builder is recorded as Masterbuilt Housing Corporation. The architect is recorded as Henry Hohauser.

* Date source: Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser

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