Video: Saving the Byron Carlyle Forum

Read Time: 3 minsView the video below from our October 19th zoom forum! Special thanks to the panelists and to the Neighborhood Organization to Save North Beach Robert Geitner, Executive Director – Olympia […]

A Woman With Her Own Design

Read Time: 3 minsBarbara Baer Capitman was always an art and design lover. Perhaps she inherited this passion from her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Baer, who was an artist in her own right in the 1950’s. […]

A Pastel Paradise

Read Time: < 1 minCome back in time with us to Ocean Drive in 1989 and hear directly from MDPL co-founder Leonard Horowitz in this rare documentary that has just been digitized from our […]

Carl Fisher’s Hotels

Read Time: 3 minsDeveloper Carl G. Fisher (1874–1939)—was a self-made millionaire who transformed Miami Beach into a winter tourist destination at the beginning of the twentieth century. It was Fisher who built several of Miami […]

Video: Wolfsonian-FIU, Building on a 25 Year Legacy

Read Time: < 1 minWatch the video from yesterday’s Zoom presentation! Editor’s Note: Miami Design Preservation League is pleased to support Miami Beach Referendum #5 for the Wolfsonian Arts District floor area density increase […]

La Flora Hotel 1238 Collins Avenue

Read Time: 2 minsLa Flora Hotel at 1238 Collins Avenue, when opened in 1924, was a Mediterranean Revival Hotel designed by architect George L. Pfeiffer. It was three stories high and had 45 rooms, each […]

Christo’s Pink Islands

Read Time: 2 minsOn June 1, 2020, artist Christo, known in South Florida for his public art project “Surrounded Islands”, passed away. Christo’s 30-month project to encircle eleven islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink plastic […]

Art Deco Spires

Read Time: < 1 minHere at MDPL we love Art Deco buildings with decorative spires! Pictures from our 2001 archives of the Tudor, Kent and Tiffany Hotels were taken by Alex Rodriguez (the late […]