Lost Miami BeachMiami Beach has been "America's Playground" for a century. Still one of the world's most popular resorts, its 1930s Art Deco architecture placed this picturesque city on the National Register of Historic Places. Yet a whole generation of earlier buildings was erased from the landscape and mostly forgotten: the house of refuge for shipwrecked sailors, the oceanfront mansions of Millionaires' Row, entrepreneur Carl Fisher's five grand hotels, the Community Theatre, the Miami Beach Garden and more. Join historian Carolyn Klepser as she rediscovers through words and pictures the lost treasures of Miami Beach and recounts the changes that sparked a renowned preservation movement. |
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Contents
The Miami Beach Improvement Company | |
Fifth Street | |
Ocean Drive | |
Millionaires | |
Other Homes | |
Lincoln Road | |
The Carl Fisher Hotels | |
Other Hotels | |
Notes | |
Selected Bibliography | |
About the Author | |
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Allison Alton Beach Alton Road architect architecture Art Deco Arva Moore Parks August Geiger August Geiger designed Beach Historical Archive Beach Realty BeauxArts became Belle Isle Biscayne Bay Biscayne House Biscayne Street bought built Carl Fisher Casino Chapter Chicago City of Miami city’s Club clubhouse Collins Avenue Collins Bridge Community Theatre construction Coral Gables Courtesy Arva Moore Courtesy City courtesy of Larry Dade County demolished dining room east Fifth Street Firestone Flamingo Hotel floor Florida Hampton HistoryMiami house of refuge Indian Creek J.C. Penney James John Kiehnel & Elliott land Larry Wiggins later Lincoln Hotel Lincoln Road lots mansion Mediterranean style Miami Beach Historical Miami Daily Miami Herald Miami Ocean View Millionaires moved to Miami Nautilus Ocean Beach Ocean Drive oceanfront Palm Beach Palm Island Postcard courtesy residence roof rounded arches Roy France Snowden stories threestory tower trolley Twentythird Street twostory Washington Avenue Whitman William York
Bibliographic information
| Title | Lost Miami Beach |
| Author | Carolyn Klepser |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Arcadia Publishing, 2014 |
| ISBN | 1625849591, 9781625849595 |
| Length | 160 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Photography / Subjects & Themes / Historical Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional Travel / Pictorials |
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