Read Time: 4mins Flagler Monument Island is a small man-made island off the coast of Miami Beach, Florida. While it may resemble just another island in the bay, it is actually a monument […]
Read Time: 3mins On February 1st 2023, a 1937 Art Deco home was demolished at 1745 W 24th Street on Sunset Island #3 in Miami Beach. Unfortunately, it was located outside of a […]
Read Time: 8mins by Robin Grow, Vice-President, ICADS and President, Art Deco and Modernism Society of AustraliaA regular highlight (and a major Initiative) of ICADS activities for the last three decades has been […]
Read Time: 4mins 41st Street is a key thoroughfare in the Mid-Beach section of Miami Beach, although the area in which it was constructed was once known as “North Beach”. Beginning in the […]
Read Time: < 1min Today we lost the North Beach landmark Deauville Hotel due to demolition by neglect. We captured this footage of the implosion and ensuing demolition cloud. An important part of our cultural, […]
Read Time: 2mins Richard Heisenbottle, president and founder of R.J. Heisenbottle Architects, visited the Art Deco Museum at the MDPL on Oct. 6 to discuss his firm’s work restoring some of Miami’s most […]
Read Time: 4mins The Cameo Theater at 1445 Washington Avenue opened its doors on November 4th, 1938. It is located in the Española Way Historic District, which in 1986 became the first historic […]
Read Time: 3mins The Roney Plaza Hotel, considered the very first of many monumental beachfront resorts, was once located at Collins Avenue and 23rd Street. It was built by New Jersey lawyer Newton […]
Read Time: 7mins MDPL has developed a timeline starting with the first residential tower approval in 2003 (unbuilt). We plan to update this timeline – you can bookmark this page to stay in […]
Read Time: 2mins About the Author: Jason Katz is the publisher of Islandia Journal, a (sub)tropical journal of myth, folklore, history, ecology, cryptozoology, and the paranormal. He is a contributing editor at Burnaway […]
Read Time: 2mins MDPL recently learned of another one of our dedicated preservationists who passed away last November, 2021. Keith Root attended the University of Florida from 1971-1977, where he received a BA and an […]
Read Time: 4mins We were saddened to learn this weekend of the passing of Richard Hoberman (April 1, 1941 – March 4, 2022), another true MDPL pioneer that worked tirelessly for the cause of preservation […]
Read Time: 4 mins Flagler Monument Island is a small man-made island off the coast of Miami Beach, Florida. While it may resemble just another island in the bay, it is actually a monument […] 
Read Time: 3 mins On February 1st 2023, a 1937 Art Deco home was demolished at 1745 W 24th Street on Sunset Island #3 in Miami Beach. Unfortunately, it was located outside of a […] 
Read Time: 8 mins by Robin Grow, Vice-President, ICADS and President, Art Deco and Modernism Society of AustraliaA regular highlight (and a major Initiative) of ICADS activities for the last three decades has been […] 
Read Time: 4 mins 41st Street is a key thoroughfare in the Mid-Beach section of Miami Beach, although the area in which it was constructed was once known as “North Beach”. Beginning in the […] 
Read Time: < 1 min Today we lost the North Beach landmark Deauville Hotel due to demolition by neglect. We captured this footage of the implosion and ensuing demolition cloud. An important part of our cultural, […] 
Read Time: 2 mins Richard Heisenbottle, president and founder of R.J. Heisenbottle Architects, visited the Art Deco Museum at the MDPL on Oct. 6 to discuss his firm’s work restoring some of Miami’s most […] 
Read Time: 4 mins The Cameo Theater at 1445 Washington Avenue opened its doors on November 4th, 1938. It is located in the Española Way Historic District, which in 1986 became the first historic […] 
Read Time: 3 mins The Roney Plaza Hotel, considered the very first of many monumental beachfront resorts, was once located at Collins Avenue and 23rd Street. It was built by New Jersey lawyer Newton […] 
Read Time: 2 mins About the Author: Jason Katz is the publisher of Islandia Journal, a (sub)tropical journal of myth, folklore, history, ecology, cryptozoology, and the paranormal. He is a contributing editor at Burnaway […] 
Read Time: 2 mins MDPL recently learned of another one of our dedicated preservationists who passed away last November, 2021. Keith Root attended the University of Florida from 1971-1977, where he received a BA and an […] 
Read Time: 4 mins We were saddened to learn this weekend of the passing of Richard Hoberman (April 1, 1941 – March 4, 2022), another true MDPL pioneer that worked tirelessly for the cause of preservation […]