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| Location | Miami Beach,Florida |
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| Coordinates | 25°47′9″N80°8′3″W / 25.78583°N 80.13417°W /25.78583; -80.13417 |
| Area | 5,750 acres (23.3 km2) |
| NRHP reference No. | 79000667[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 14, 1979 |
TheMiami Beach Architectural District (also known asOld Miami Beach Historic District and the more popular termMiami Art Deco District) is aU.S. historic district (designated as such on May 14, 1979) located in theSouth Beach neighborhood ofMiami Beach, Florida. The area is well known as the district where Italian fashion designerGianni Versace lived and was assassinated byAndrew Cunanan, ina mansion onOcean Drive. It is bounded[2] by theAtlantic Ocean to the east, Sixth Street to the south,Alton Road to the west and the Collins Canal and Dade Boulevard to the north. It contains 960 historic buildings.
This historic district holds the largest collection ofArt Deco buildings in the world, an umbrella term covering a range of styles such as “Streamline”, “Tropical”, and “Med-deco” and built mostly between the Great Depression and the early 1940s.[citation needed] Notably, the architectural movement reached Miami after the city’s real estate market took a downturn in 1925, and the"Great Miami Hurricane" of 1926 that left 25,000 people homeless throughout the greater Miami region. Prior to the arrival of Art Deco, buildings in Miami Beach were primarily built in theMediterranean Revival style. The historic district still contains many of these buildings, most of which were built in the early to mid-1920s.[3]
The Art Deco designed buildings are often described as evoking technological modernity, resilience, and optimism.[4] The Miami Beach Art Deco Museum describes the Miami building boom as coming mostly during the second phase of the architectural movement known asStreamline Moderne, a style that was “buttressed by the belief that times would get better, and was infused with the optimistic futurism extolled at American’s World Fairs of the 1930s.”[5]
In 1989, it was listed inA Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by theUniversity of Florida Press.[6]
The district includes areas of seasonal hotels, commercial strips, and residential area.[7]
Hotels on Ocean Drive, which can actually face the ocean, run from 5th to 15th Streets and front ontoLummus Park, a public park and beach. Many of these "reflect the influences of the Moderne Style perpetuated at the International expositions of the 1930s": theChicago World's Fair of 1933 and theNew York World's Fair of 1939.
These include:
The district also includes:
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