Read Time: 3 mins MDPL’s Advocacy Committee has reviewed the following applications and offers our below positions. Please note, the lack of a position on a project does not indicate support or opposition to
Read Time: 2 mins The New Yorker Hotel once stood at 1611 Collins Avenue. It was the destruction of this iconic 1940 hotel in April 1981, considered by some the masterpiece of local architect
Read Time: 6 mins Imagine you are a kid growing up in the 1970s and your playroom just happens to be the balcony of one of the oldest and largest Art Deco theatres in
Read Time: 2 mins The “Nut Club”, known in the 40’s as “The Gayest Spot in Town” with “Continuous Screwey Entertainment”, offering “Dancing and Dinners from $1.50”, was located on Alton Road and Dade
Read Time: 5 mins Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Miami Today on 8/25/1983 by Barbara Baer Capitman. It is reprinted below as part of our ongoing archives digitization project. The original
Read Time: 2 mins On April 9th, 2021, we celebrate the 101st year anniversary of the birthday of MDPL’s founder, Barbara Baer Capitman. We will be forever be in debt for her dedication, fierce
Read Time: 2 mins El Chico’s swank nightclub was built in the 1930s and located in the new Art Deco Architectural District at 22nd St and Park Avenue. In 1982…”the leaders of the MDPL
Read Time: 2 mins MDPL’s Advocacy Committee has reviewed the following applications and offers our below positions. Please note, the lack of a position on a project does not indicate support or opposition to
Read Time: 3 mins Once located on Belle Isle, the only natural island on the Venetian Island—the rest are man-made, the Monterrey Motel and Yacht Club was built in 1953 and designed by architect
Read Time: 5 mins Rita Blank certainly had a unique childhood growing up on the beach in the 1950s-60s. Her family moved down from New York to Miami Beach in 1956, thinking their father
Read Time: 3 mins Last Friday, March 19th, 2021 was the long-awaited unveiling of a new mural by artist Ignacio Marino Larrique. Located at 1543 Washington Avenue, the mural is sponsored by The Washington
Read Time: < 1 min This excerpt comes from a March 4th, 1940, archival Life magazine article entitled, “Miami & Miami Beach; Biggest U.S. winter resort has biggest boom” “All beaches are noteworthy for the
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