Title: Fantasy in neon, Collins Avenue, Miami Beach

Summary: Night view, with moon partly behind clouds, of the Raleigh, the Ritz Plaza, the National, the Sands, and the New Yorker Hotels.

Collection Title: Florida Postcard Collection

Collection No.: ASM0299

Archive: asm02990000550001001.tif

Container: Box No.: 9, Folder Title: Miami Beach -- Hotels.

Coverage Temporal: 1940-1949

Coverage Spatial: Miami Beach (Fla.)

Physical Description: 1 color postcard

Digital ID: asm02990000550001001

Note: Architect L. Murray Dixon designed the Raleigh in the Streamline Modern Style; it opened in 1940. Dixon also designed The Ritz Plaza (originally the Grossinger Beach Hotel), the first air-conditioned hotel on Miami Beach, in 1939. After being used in World War II by the U.S. Armed Forces' top officers, it re-opened in 1946 as the Ritz, and has since been designated a national historic landmark. The 12-storey National Hotel was built in 1939 by architect Roy F. France and was the first on the scene during the Art Deco heyday. It underwent restoration in 1996-1997, and was honored with the Miami Design Preservation League's Hall of Fame Award and the Dade Heritage Trust Preservation Award for Excellence in Art Deco Preservation. The New Yorker Hotel, built by Henry Hohauser in 1939, was considered to be Hohauser's greatest work and a masterpiece of Art Deco design, but was demolished in 1981. The New Yorker's lot stood vacant. Inscription on verso. Postmark: Jul 9, 1949. 17,209.

Publisher: Novelti-Craft Products Co.; Colourpicture Publishers, Inc.

Repository: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

Series: Series: III Miami Beach

Subject: Raleigh Hotel (Miami Beach, Fla.); Ritz Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach, Fla.); National Hotel (Miami Beach, Fla.); Sands Hotel (Miami Beach, Fla.); New Yorker Hotel (Miami Beach, Fla.); Hotels; Art deco (Architecture); Art Deco Historic District (Miami Beach, Fla.); Collins Avenue (Miami Beach, Fla.); Moon; Lighting, Architectural and decorative

Genre: Night photographs;Postcards

Repository: Digital Collections

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