Author: MDPL Staff

The Wofford and Traymore Hotels

June 30, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 3 minsMrs. Olive Wofford, a widow in the early 20th century, opened a guest house in Miami Beach at 23rd and Collins Avenue. After seeing how the market was so successful,
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The Hampton Hotel

June 26, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 3 minsThe Hampton Hotel located at the corner of Lincoln Road and Michigan Avenue, was built in April 1926, and designed by Martin L. Hampton. He also designed the old Miami
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The Nemo Hotel

June 22, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 2 minsThe Nemo Hotel at 100 Collins Ave was considered to be a Mediterranean Revival gem that was built in 1921 by New Yorkers Sam Magrid, and Joseph and Harry Goodkowsky.
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The Strand Restaurant

June 16, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 3 minsThe Strand Restaurant located at 671 Washington Avenue, designed by Yosse Friedman, was the keystone in 1986 to revitalizing dark Washington Avenue years before Micky Wolfson bought the Washington Avenue Storage
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The Neron Hotel

June 15, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 2 minsThe Neron Hotel previously located at 1110 Drexel Avenue, was a fine example of the Art Deco/Streamline Moderne architecture built by architect Henry Hohauser in 1940. The building exhibited many
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The Great Hurricane of 1926

June 1, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 2 minsThese 1926 vintage photographs of the days after the “Great Miami” Hurricane were generously gifted to the MDPL in early 2018 by Alice McCollam Neary. Her father Hugh Kenneth McCollam
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Carl Fisher’s Yacht “Shadow K”

May 26, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 2 minsThese 1920’s vintage photographs of Fisher’s yacht the “Shadow K”, and its passengers, were generously gifted to the MDPL in early 2018 by Alice McCollam Neary. Her father, Hugh Kenneth
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1983 Art Deco Weekend Poster

May 21, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 2 mins…depicting nude on blue background with palm leaves. Created by Woody Vondracek who stated, “A last minute decision by the Miami Beach Junior Chamber of Commerce killed this design as
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The Coleman House, Asheville NC

May 18, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: < 1 minThe Coleman House at 36 Montford Ave. (where the Chamber of Commerce now sits) was a cause célèbre in the late 1970s when its owner, William Coleman died. “The Coleman
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The Biscaya Hotel

May 7, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 3 minsThe Biscaya Hotel was a 134,000 sq. foot Mediterranean ten story structure, located on the north side of MacArthur Causeway. Originally built in 1925, as The Floridian Hotel, it replaced the
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