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It was the first air-conditioned hotel on Miami Beach. [1] The hotel was used by the U.S. Army during World War II to accommodate high-ranking officers. The property re-opened in 1946 as the Ritz Plaza. In 1989, the hotel was purchased by Ignacio Contreras and Manuel Llerandi and restored to its Art Deco roots, reopening in February 1990.
Location of Miami-Dade County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami-Dade County, Florida.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
Today, the hotel is known as the Miami Beach Resort and Spa, an LXR hotel. The property was closed in 2019 by the new owners, the Chetrit family. [6] OBR retained a portion of the property adjacent to the hotel when it was sold to Interstate. Originally containing a parking lot, two tennis courts and additional beach access, OBR built the Grand ...
By late 1970s and early ‘80s, Miami Beach, after its first heyday from the 1930s through the ‘60s, was a place in transition. Let’s see what it looked like from the Miami Herald Archives ...
Here is a look through the photo and story archives of the Miami Herald at what started as Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami. A 1977 picture of the Miami skyline shot from Bicentennial Park.
The Mutiny went from being the premier business hotel in the area to a "drug den" over the course of the 1980s, [10] gaining a reputation as a preferred hotel of "cocaine cowboys". [11] Ricardo "Monkey" Morales used it as an office, and one drug dealer, Carlos Fernando Quesada, had a private table. [ 12 ]
The Fontainebleau Miami Beach, also known as the Fontainebleau Hotel, is a hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. Designed by Morris Lapidus , the luxury hotel opened in 1954. In 2007, the Fontainebleau Hotel was ranked ninety-third in the American Institute of Architects list of " America's Favorite Architecture ". [ 2 ]
The Yve Hotel at 146 Biscayne Blvd. and the abutting Biscayne Office Center at 141 NE Third Avenue in Miami, Florida as seen on Tuesday, September 19, 2023.