Tudor Hotel

Current/Common name: Tudor Hotel

Construction date: documented 1939*

Architect: L. Murray Dixon

Builder: Prufert-Wien Construction Company

Style: Collins avenue hotel, Art Deco, Streamlined Moderne . Symmetrical tripartite facade design with southwest corner of the building as the center; Continuous eyebrows rounded at corners; Building itself is rounded at its southwest corner; Ziggurat parapet roofline; "Tudor Hotel" neon signage poised vertically and rises far above roofline; Vertical stripes in fluted pilasters on either side of central bay (building's corner); Interior and exterior multi-colored terrazzo floor designs; Low-relief horizontal banding beneath second and third floor level windows and along cornice; Pink (exterior) and green (interior) oolitic limestone veneer heavily used as ornamentation.

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 1939. The foundation is spread footing. Exterior walls are oolitic limestone (primary) and stucco (secondary). The building has a flat with parapet roof. Windows are replacement aluminum casements. There is a single-story, corner wrap-around open porch characterized by an integrated (under the main) roof with fluted stuccoed posts. Wrap-around porch recessed into the western half of the south elevation and wraps around slightly to the west elevation; Highly ornate multi-colored terrazzo floor designs; Pink coral stone veneer; Surrounded by large balustrade with large blocks of the same pink coral stone and evenly-spaced patterns of three adjoining masonry portholes flanked on either side by fluting in the coral rock; Top and bottom of the balustrade are also of low-relief, creating horizontal banding Primary entryway is at the southwest corner of the building on the northeast corner of Collins Avenue and 11th street; Three low steps framed by two fluted rectangular columns lead up to the porch and directly to the primary entryway; Double door framed in pink coral stone; On the floor just before the primary entryway is a geometric multi-colored terrazzo floor design and the address of the building ("1111") in the floor. Symmetrical tripartite facade design with southwest corner of the building as the center; Continuous eyebrows rounded at corners; Building itself is rounded at its southwest corner; Ziggurat parapet roofline; "Tudor Hotel" neon signage poised vertically and rises far above roofline; Vertical stripes in fluted pilasters on either side of central bay (building's corner); Interior and exterior multi-colored terrazzo floor designs; Low-relief horizontal banding beneath second and third floor level windows and along cornice; Pink (exterior) and green (interior) oolitic limestone veneer heavily used as ornamentation. The builder is recorded as Prufert-Wien Construction Company. The architect is recorded as L. Murray Dixon. The original/significant owner is recorded as Sidney A. Wien (original).

* Date source: Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser

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