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Date: 4/15/2004 10:17:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: Larry Wiggins <lwiggins3@earthlink.net>
To: HKMiami@aol.com
Reply-To: Larry Wiggins <lwiggins3@earthlink.net>
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Hi Howard,
Carolyn Klepser, who researches and writes the historic
designation reports for the city of Miami Beach and who worked with
Arva on the Miami Then and Now book, wrote the following in a
history of North Beach.
Here is a link to the full article. This quote is from page 7 .
Larry
http://www.gonorthbeach.com/pdf/nbhist.pdf
"What the Art Deco style was to South Beach, the Postwar Modern
and a€❑Mimoa€❑ styles
were to North Beach. First was Roy Francea€❑s Martinique Hotel at
64th Street (now demolished) ,
with 137 rooms the largest of the six hotels built in Miami Beach in
1946 and the first hotel in
the City to be completely air-conditioned. The following year, Henry
Hohausera€❑s Sherry-
Frontenac Hotel appeared at 65th Street, a€❑the first postwar multi-
million dollar glamour
hostelry, a€023 with 250 rooms . In 1950 Roy Francea€❑s Casablanca
Hotel was built at 63rd Street, a
landmark of exotic fantasy adapted to the automotive age, with huge
neon signage and a carport
supported b'y four turbaned figures. 1951 saw the construction of two
hotels by Albert Anis: the
Monte Carlo, just south of the Sherry Frontenac, and the Biltmore
Terrace, at the Miami Beach
city limits, on the Ocean at 87th Terrace. These all preceded Morris
Lapidusa€❑ Fontainebleau, a
marvelous but certainly not the earliest example of Mimo
architecture. "
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