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BUTTERWORTH S.D.
Floridian Hotel(Biscayo Hotel, 1925)540 West Avenue
CHALFIN, PAUL
Associate architect for Vizcaya,responsible for interiors and furnishings.
CHENEY, HOWARD L.
Miami Beach Post Office(1937) 1300 Washington Avenue
DE GARMO, WALTER C.
A native of Illinois, he came to Miami in 1904. First registered architect in the State of Florida. Studied at the University of Pennsylvania.
Worked in New York with John Russell Pope before moving to Miami.Designed many of the early public buildings in Miami,Miami
Beach and Coral Gables.
Coral Gables Bank and Post Office(1924)Alhambra Circle
J.C.Penny residence(1924)Belle Island.
McAllister Hotel(1916) 10 Biscayne Boulevard
Coconut Grove Housekeeper's Club addition(1921)
Hugh Matheson residence(1925)Coconut Grove
St.Teresa School(with Phineos Paist, 1924)Coral Gables
Miami Beach Community Church(1921)500 Lincoln Road
Highleymon residence(1918) 1402 South Bayshore Drive
Coral Gables Administration Building(1924)(demolished)
Ogden residence.Lemon City(demolished)
Miami Central School(demolished)
Miami City Hall(1907)West Flagler Street(demolished)
Miami Fire Station#1 (1907)West Flagler Street(demolished)
Collaborated on: Colonnade Building
Douglas Entrance
DIXON, L. MURRAY
Prolific in the Miami Beach Art Deco/Streamline styles.
-Tiffany Hotel(1939)801 Collins Avenue
J dor Hotel(1939) 1111 Collins Avenue
`calmer House Hotel(1939) 1119 Collins Avenue
Marlin Hotel(1939) 1200 Collins Avenue
.venator/Nosh Hotel(1939) 1201 Collins Avenue
��ddon Hall Hotel(1941) 1500 Collins Avenue
tRtz Plaza Hotel(1940) 1701 Collins Avenue
Roleigh Hotel(1940) 1777 Collins Avenue
4,,i�Cctor Hotel(1937) 1144 Ocean Drive
✓The Tides Hotel(1936) 1220 Ocean Drive
((dams Hotel(1938)2030 Park Avenue
EBERSON&EBERSON
Chicago firm,known for their atmospheric theater designs around the country.
Gusmon Hall(Olympia Theater, 1925) 174 Eost Flagler Street
FINK, DENMAN
Native of Springdale,Pennsylvania,he came to Miami in 1924 to work with his nephew,George Merrick.A pointer,he studied at the Boston
Museum of Art.Did portraits,magazine illustrations and murals.Art instructor at the University of Miami for twenty-five years,until his
death in 1956.
Master Plan for Coral Gables
Mural for Federal Courthouse(1940)300 N.E. 1st Avenue
Collaborated on numerous public and private projects in Coral Gables.
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Came to Miami in 1904 from Pennsylvania. Worked for Carl Fisher in Miami Beach from 1915 to 1921. Became associated with George
Merrick,his cousin,in the development of Coral Gables in 1921.Designed many of the early houses along Coral Way. Received on
honorary citation from King Alfonso XIII for his Spanish work in America.
814 Coral Way
920 Coral Way
1119 Coral Way
1141 Coral Way
1217 Coral Way
1254 Coral Way
1203 North Greenway Drive
902 South Greenwoy Drive
932 South Greenwoy Drive
1100 South Greenwoy Drive
FRANCE, ROY F.
Moved to Miami in 1932 from Chicago.Worked mostly in the Art Deco/Streamline style,popular in Miami Beach.
,...1Moritz Hotel(1939) 1565 Collins Avenue
1nds Hotel(1939) 1601 Collins Avenue
tional Hotel(1940) 1677 Collins Avenue
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ersailles Hotel(1940)3425 Collins Avenue
,Cavalier Hotel(1936) 1320 Collins Avenue
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BRICKELL AVENUE, IN 1918 AND DEMOLISHED IN 1978.(HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA) E•.
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Born in 1888,came to Miami in 1905 from New Haven,Connecticut.Architect for Dade County School Board and for Carl Fisher.
First Church of Christ Scientist(1924) 1836 Biscayne Boulevard
Neva King Cooper School(Homestead Public School, 1914)Jackson Memorial Hospital
Carl Fisher residence(1920)North Bay Rood
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Miami Women's Club(1925) 1737 North Boyshore Drive .
Washington Avenue Community Center(Miami Beach Municipal Golf Course, 1915)2100 Washington Avenue
Associate architect for Dade County Courthouse(1925)
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HAHN, F.W.
One of the earliest architects in Miami.Ad in the 1904 Miami City Directory reads: "Do not get a Northern architect to build a Southern
home"
HALL, KINGSTON
1535 Meridian Avenue(1935)
1545 Meridian Avenue(1935)
"Blackstone Hotel(1929)800 Washington Avenue
HAMPTON,MARTIN LUTHER
Designed mostly in a Spanish style.
oictiiety Hotel 11922) 1700 Alton‘Vompton Court(1924)2800 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach City Hall(1927) 1130 Washington Avenue
Congress Building(1923) 111 N.E 2nd Avenue
HAMPTON& EHMAN
Most work in a Spanish idiom.
3224,3227,3300 Biscayne Boulevard(1925)
Langford Building(1925) 121 S.E. 1st Street
HENDERSON, T. HUNTER
Miami Beach Art Deco/Streamline architect.
David Alan Store(1929)744 Lincoln Road
S)-I.Kress Building(1935) 1201 Washington Avenue
Arthur Hotel(1930)701-745 Fifth Street
HOFFMAN, F. BURRALL,JR.
Architect for Vizcaya,the Deering Estate.Studied at Harvard and L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.Worked in New York with Carrere and
Hastings,architects for the Ponce de Leon Hotel in St.Augustine.
HOHAUSER, HENRY
Born in 1896,come to Miami in 1932. His firm designed over three hundred buildings in the area. One of the leading architects of the Art
Deco/Streamline style in Miami Beach.
Isex House Hotel(1938) 1001 Collins Avenue
epley Hotel(1938) 1340 Collins Avenue
ommodore Hotel(1939) 1360 Collins Avenue
Warsaw Ballroom(1940) 1450 Collins Avenue
New Yorker Hotel(1940) 1611 Collins Avenue
sNeron Hotel(1940) 1110 Drexel Avenue
tgentury Hotel(1939) 140 Ocean Drive
i.itlison Hotel(1935)960 Ocean Drive
,,,2ordozo Hotel 11939) 1300 Ocean Drive
-Beth Jacob Social Holl(1936)301 Washington Avenue
-governor Hotel(1939)435 Twenty-first Street
KAMPER, LOUIS
Originally from Detroit,Michigan.
Huntington Building(1925) 168 S.E. 1st Street
Lindsey Hopkins(Roosevelt Hotel, 1925) 1410 N.E.2nd Avenue
KIEHNEL AND ELLIOTT
Pittsburgh firm,formed in 1906.First commission in Miami in 1917.In 1920 opened on office in Miami with Richard Kiehnel in charge,John M.
Elliott in charge of Pittsburgh office.Richard Kiehnel was born in Germany in 1870.Studied at the University of Breslau,Germany and
the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts,Paris.His work was the major force in the introduction of Mediterranean Revival architecture in
Miami.Editor of Florida Architecture and Allied Arts magazine 1935-1942.
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Coral Gables Congregational Church(1923)3010 De Soto Boulevard.
Players Stote Theater(Coconut Grove Playhouse, 1925)3500 Main Highway
El Jordin(Carrollton School)(1917)3747 Main Highway
Coral Gables Elementary School(1926) 105 Minorca Avenue
Scottish Rite Temple(1922)303 N.W.North River Drive
,./Carlyle Hotel(1941) 1250 Ocean Drive
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John B.Orr residence(1926)Palm Island
Seybold Building(1925)36 N.E. 1st Street
Miami Senior High School(1927)2400 S.W. 1st Street
sling Cole Hotel(1925)(demolished)
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LAMB, THOMAS W.
Best known for his theater designs,having built over three hundred theaters.
Lincoln Theater(1935)555 Lincoln Rood.
Cinema Theater(interior, 1938) 1201-1259 Washington Avenue
Cameo Theater(1938) 1445 Washington Avenue
LAPIDUS,MORRIS
Born in Russia in 1902.Stydied at New York University and Columbia School of Architecture.
ufontoinebleau Hotel(1953)4441 Collins Avenue
\Ken Roc Hotel(1955)4525 Collins Avenue
Lincoln Rood Pedestrian moll
LEWIS,ALEXANDER D.
Braman Cadillac Building(1927)2044 Biscayne Boulevard
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.(1929) 1200 Flogler Street
MANLEY,MARION
First known woman architect in Miami.Studied at the University of Illinois,come to Miami in 1917.Worked with Walter De Garmo and Robert
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University of Miami dormitories
Dooly Building.University of Miami(with Robert L.Weed)
Residential designs
Collaborator in Federal Courthouse.1931.300 N.E.1st Avenue
MARSH&SAXELBYE
Architectural firm from Jacksonville,Florida.
Alfred I.DuPont Building(1937) 169 Eost Flogler Street
MALONEY, HENRY J.
v dward Hotel(1935)953 Collins Avenue
/oves Hotel(1934) 1060 Ocean Drive
MULLER, BERNHARDT
New York architect.Designed mostly in Tudor and English cottage styles.Commissioned by Glenn Curtiss to design Opa-locka based on an
"Arabian Nights"theme.Designed most of the early buildings in Opa-locko.
Seaboard Coastline Train Station(1926)490 Ali Bobo Avenue DETA
Opa-Iocko Hotel(Hurt Building, 1926)432 Opo-Iocko Boulevard PANG
Opo-Iocko City Holl(Administration Building,1926)777 Shorazod Avenue
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Coconut Grove Elementary School(1912)3351 Matilda Street PAM
Old Homestead City Hall(1917)43 North Krome Avenue Born it
Dade County Agricultural School(Miami Edison,1931)6101 N.W.2nd Avenue
Robert E.Lee Junior High School(1924)3100 N.W.5th Avenue
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral(1924)464 N.E. 16th Street
MURPHY, HENRY K.
Expert in Chinese architecture.Graduated from Yale in 1899.Designed the University of Yale in China.Designed the Chinese Village in Coral
Gables in 1926.Appointed architectural advisor to the Chinese government in 1928. PFEIFf
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NELLENBOGEN, V.H. A
Prolific in the Miami Beah Art Deco/Streamline styles. n-
vtr9itklin Hotel(1934)860 Collins Avenue B.
imrose Hotel(1935) 1120 Collins Avenue
Aiamoc Hotel(1934) 1300 Collins Avenue •
Sterling Building remodelling(1940)927 Lincoln Rood
,Avoy Plaza(1935)425 Ocean Drive •
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NIMMONS, CARR& WRIGHT
Architectural firm from Chicago,Illinois.
Sears,Roebuck&Co.(1929) 1300 Biscayne Boulevord
MIST,PHINEAS E.
Graduated from the Dextrell Institute of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.Paist had worked on several major projects in Philadelphia
and os associate architect on the Villa Vizcaya before moving to Miami in 1924.He was named supervising architect for Coral Gables
in 1925.
Colonnade Building(1925) 133-169 Miracle Mile
Boake Building(1926)2701 Ponce de Leon Boulevard
Charade Restaurant(Granada Shops,1925)2900 Ponce de Leon Boulevard
Son Sebastian Apartments(University of Miami Building, 1925)333 University Drive
U.S.Post Office and Courthouse(with Harold Steward, 1931)300 N.E. 1st Avenue
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DETAIL OF FRONT ELEVATION FOR THE COLLINS LIBRARY,NOW THE BASS MUSEUM ON MIAMI BEACH, DESIGNED BY RUSSELL
PANCOAST IN 1929. (FERENDINO,GRAFTON,SPILL'S&CANDELA)
PANCOAST, RUSSELL THORN
Born in Merchontville,New Jersey.A grandson of Miami Beach pioneer John A.Collins,Pancoast came to Miami in 1913.Studied architecture
at Cornell University.Founded Pancoast,Ferendino,Grafton&Skeels,architects and engineers.
\Peter Miller Hotel(1936( 1900 Collins Avunue
Miami Beach Surf Club(192919011 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach Public Library(Bass Museum of Art, 1930)2100 Pork Avenue
Collins residence.5011 Pine Tree Drive
PFEIFFER& O'REILLY
George L.Pfeiffer was born in Germany in 1861 and came to Miami in the 1890s.Organized the Florida Chapter of the American Institute of
Architects and served as officer in several other organizations.Gerald J.O'Reilly was born in Reading,Pennsylvania in 1896,and
moved to Miami at the age of eight.Studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Worked on writing the Miami
Building Code in 1922.
. eonard Hotel(1925)54 Ocean Drive
Hohn Building 140 N.E. 1st Avenue
Dade Federal Building(1925) 120 N.E. 1st Street
Lindsey Hopkins Vocational School(Roosevelt Hotel, 1925) 1410 N.E.2nd Avenue
POLEVITZKY, IGOR
Born in Russia in 1912.Studied at the University of Pennsylvania.Moved to Miami in 1934.
„Albion Hotel(1939) 1650 Jomes Avenue
Shelborne Hotel.Miami Beach
PRICE& MCLANAHAN
Architectural firm from Philadelphia.Designed the Flamingo Hotel in 1921 for Carl Fisher.
ROBERTSON, E.L. •
Came to Miami in 1919 after studying in New York City.Originally from Mobile,Alabama.
Texaco Station.540 Biscayne Boulevard
Burdine's remodelling and additions(1938)22 East Flagler Street
Sabra Restaurant(1934)605 Washington Avenue
Friedman's Bakery(1934)685 Washington Avenue
WEED, ROBERT LAW
Born in Sewickley,Pennsylvania in 1897,studied at Carnegie Institute,and moved to Miami in 1919.Started his career designing mansions in
Palm Beach and Miami Beach.
Boulevard Shops(Mohi Shrine Temple,1930) 1401 Biscayne Boulevard.
General Electric Model Home(1935)La Gorce Drive
Burdine's. 1675 Meridian Avenue
Florida Power and Light Building(Ryan Motors Showroom,1925)400 S.W.2nd Avenue
Miami Shores Elementary School(with Robertson&Potterson,1930) 10351 N.E.5th Avenue
Florida Model Home(1933)Chicago World's Fair
WENDEROTH, OSCAR
Amerifirst Federal(U.S.Post Office,1913)100 N.E.1st Avenue
WYETH, MARION SYMS
Dutch South African Village(1925)Le Jeune Rood
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