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November 18, 2024
Read Time: 3 mins With Giving Day currently underway, here are 9 reasons to give today to the Miami Design Preservation League!
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Read Time: 3 mins With Giving Day currently underway, here are 9 reasons to give today to the Miami Design Preservation League!
Read Time: 3 mins With Giving Day currently underway, here are 9 reasons to give today to the Miami Design Preservation League!
Read Time: 2 mins At the time, preservationists fought to make this quaint neighborhood a historic district. Then referred to as the Bass District, the area is between Washington and Collins Avenue from 16th to 23rd Street. It features some of the best examples of Art Deco and Mediterranean architecture.
Read Time: 3 mins MDPL’s Advocacy Committee will review the following applications on the upcoming Historic Preservation Board agenda. Here is a sneak peek of the projects to be heard and links to learn
Read Time: 3 mins The revitalization of Miami Beach in the early 1980s included major infrastructure projects that helped transform it back to its glory days. A Miami Herald article by Dory Owens, dated
Read Time: 3 mins In 1987, the state of Florida loaned $250,000 for the restoration of the Edison, with assistance from the Miami Beach Development Corp.
Read Time: 4 mins Art Deco hotels offered fashionable places to escape the Winter and Great Depression during the 1930s and 40s. But by the 1970s and 1980s, Miami Beach was in decline. By 1981, the city was looking to revitalize.
Read Time: 2 mins Experience one of the country’s richest collections of mid-century and postmodern architecture as Docomomo US holds its National Symposium in Miami, Miami Beach, and Coral Gables, May 29th to June 1st, 2024. Entitled Streams of Modernity: Postwar to Postmodern, the symposium is a collaboration of Docomomo US and the Docomomo US/Florida chapter.
Read Time: 7 mins R.J. Heisenbottle Architects, P.A. (RJHA) was commissioned in 1987 by then-owner Zaminco International to conduct extensive restoration work to the rapidly decaying landmark to bring it back to its original 1925 splendor.
Read Time: 2 mins Found among the archives PostMortem, a South Beach newspaper that ran from 1988-1990 and focused on arts and culture. A full-page ad announces a reception for the artist Keith Haring on Monday, May 2nd, 1988, at the Wham Bam at 437 Washington Avenue in South Beach.
Read Time: 3 mins Interview with David Berg, Partner at Infinity Collective
Read Time: 6 mins MDPL’s Advocacy Committee has reviewed the following project on the upcoming Historic Preservation Board agenda and offers our positions below. Please note: the lack of a position on a project
Read Time: 2 mins Barbara Baer Capitman, founder of the Miami Design Preservation League and monumental leader in the movement to save Art Deco, fought tirelessly for the preservation of Art Deco in the 1970s and 1980s. But it wasn’t until about 10 years into the effort that preservationists began to be taken seriously at the local level.
Read Time: 3 mins In 1988, the Miami Design Preservation League held its 11th Annual Art Deco Weekend. The festival’s theme was Streamline Dreamtime. Ocean Drive and the Art Deco District were slowly progressing from a hopeful dream to an innovative reality.
Read Time: 3 mins Hosted annually from 1978 through the 1990s, the Moon Over Miami Ball was a black-tie soiree held to fundraise for the Miami Design Preservation League. The event featured a lively evening with a 1930s nightclub atmosphere, held at several hotels in the historic Art Deco district, and featuring a variety of celebrities each year highlighting a unique theme. Over the years, the Balls brought in some of the greatest talent in the industry, including Cab Calloway, Eartha Kitt, the Xavier Cugat Orchestra, the Incomparable Hildegarde, Lionel Hampton and the Swing Classics.
Read Time: 4 mins May is Historic Preservation Month in the United States, organized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Here are our top picks for celebrating locally this month. Follow our events
Read Time: 2 mins Before Miami Beach fully embraced its turnaround in the 1980s and 1990s, developers and preservationists alike had to come together to form a progressive and innovative plan for the future of the city. Part of this involved finding the best approach to planning and approvals within the district – a challenge given its status as the first 20th-century urban district in the United States listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Read Time: 3 mins The year was 1986 — Miami Beach was a tropical paradise that had fallen on hard times, and it was in the early stages of a citizen-led revitalization effort to spearhead economic development and improvements in the neighborhood.
Read Time: 2 mins This Historic Preservation Month, celebrate one hundred years of Miami Shores History. A self-driving tour of six beautiful 1920’s houses is being sponsored by the Miami Shores Historic Preservation Board.
Read Time: 5 mins Editor’s Note: The month of May is Historic Preservation Month across the USA – spearheaded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Preservation Month theme is “People Saving Places”
Read Time: 5 mins MDPL’s Advocacy Committee will review the following applications on the upcoming Historic Preservation Board agenda. Here is a sneak peek of the projects to be heard and links to learn
Read Time: < 1 min On Saturday, January 13, 2024, Lea Nickless presented her lecture “Deco Deep Dive” at the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum. Lecture Description The Wolfsonian–FIU is a treasure trove of materials from the period 1850–1950, gathered from near
Read Time: < 1 min On Saturday, January 13, 2024, Rosa Lowinger presented her lecture “Dwell Time” at the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum. Lecture Description Based on her just-published memoir, Dwell Time, conservator Rosa Lowinger discusses preserving modern tropical buildings in Miami
Read Time: < 1 min On Saturday, January 13, 2024, Dave Bricker presented his lecture “Miami’s Secret Floating Village” at the Art Deco Museum. Lecture Description Inspired by people he met while working on the Christo Surrounded Islands project,
Read Time: 5 mins Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road Mall is one of the most popular shopping destinations in the world – a pedestrian promenade dotted with historic buildings from the 1920s-1960s. It stretches for about a mile between Washington Avenue and Alton Road. The outdoor shopping mall is a top stop for fashion, shopping, dining, markets, art galleries, and people-watching.
Read Time: 2 mins Experience Opa-locka’s vibrant fusion of cultures at the inaugural edition of MENA Fest, the first multicultural festival of its kind in the city’s 97-year history. On Saturday, April 13 from 12
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