MDPL Staff, Author at Miami Design Preservation League

The New Yorker Hotel

April 30, 2021 No Comments

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

Growing up, the balcony of a South Beach Art Deco theatre, was Margaret’s playroom

April 26, 2021 No Comments

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

1940’s “Kernel” Lew Mercur’s Nut Club

April 24, 2021 No Comments

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

From 1983: “Many Miamians are finding charm in grand, old houses”

April 21, 2021 No Comments

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

Barbara Baer Capitman’s 101st Birthday

April 20, 2021 No Comments

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

1930s El Chico Club

April 19, 2021 No Comments

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

Our positions at the April 13th 2021 Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board

April 13, 2021 No Comments

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

The Lido Spa Hotel 40 Island Avenue

March 30, 2021 No Comments

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

A Little Girl Grows Up at the Leslie Hotel

March 29, 2021 No Comments

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

New Mural Celebrates Washington Avenue History

March 22, 2021 No Comments

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

Beach Fashions of 1940

March 19, 2021 No Comments

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

The Colony Theatre

March 12, 2021 No Comments

Read Time: 3 mins The landmark Colony Theatre at 1040 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach opened January 25, 1935, and was built for the Paramount chain. It was a superb example of the Art

Author: MDPL Staff

The New Yorker Hotel

Growing up, the balcony of a South Beach Art Deco theatre, was Margaret’s playroom

1940’s “Kernel” Lew Mercur’s Nut Club

From 1983: “Many Miamians are finding charm in grand, old houses”

Barbara Baer Capitman’s 101st Birthday

1930s El Chico Club

Our positions at the April 13th 2021 Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board

The Lido Spa Hotel 40 Island Avenue

A Little Girl Grows Up at the Leslie Hotel

New Mural Celebrates Washington Avenue History

Beach Fashions of 1940

The Colony Theatre

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