Henry Hohauser
Henry Hohauser (May 27, 1895 in New York, New York – March 31, 1963 in Lawrence, New York) was an architect in Miami Beach, Florida. He is known for his Art Deco architecure stylings. In 1993, he was ranked as one of the 100 most influential people in South Florida history by The Miami Herald as well.
Hohauser studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York before coming to Florida in 1932. Features of his work include symmetry on the front elevation, Art Deco stylings such as a ziggurat or stepped roofline, glass bricks, curved edges, and neon lighting.
The PBS show American Experience called Hohauser and L. Murray Dixon the principal architects of Deco South Beach including "streamlined curves, jutting towers, window "eyebrows," and neon."
His work in Miami Beach includes:
The Novick (1937), 610 Jefferson Avenue in Miami Beach.
The Cardozo Hotel (1939), 1300 Ocean Drive in Miami Beach.
The Colony (1935) 736 Ocean Drive. It was one of the early buildings erected during the Art Deco renaissance that revived Miami Beach after the great hurricane of September 1926 which had leveled the city in its infancy.
The Century Hotel (1939) 140 Ocean Drive . in Miami Beach.
The Park Central Hotel (1937) 640 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach.
The Essex House Hotel (1938) 1001 Collins Avenue (Miami Beachwith porthole windows and a neon tower.
The Edison Hotel (1935) 960 Ocean Dr Miami Beach.
The Crescent (1941) 1420 Ocean Drive Miami Beach.
The Davis (1941) The Scene, Formerly the Park Washington Resort, this is actually a collection of four hotels: the Davis, Taft, Belaire and Kenmore.
Collins Plaza (1936) 318 20th Street, Miami Beach FL renovated 2013 renamed Riviera Suites
Collins Park Hotel(1939), 2000 Park Ave It includes a glass entryway and rounded corners
Neron Hotel, (1940) 1110 Drexel Ave. It was demolished in 1982 Beth Jacob Hall and Congregation with H. Frasser Rose at 301 and 311 Washington Avenue in Miami Beach. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is now the Jewish Museum of Florida - FIU.
The Parc Vendome (1936) 736 13th Street Miami Beach1020 6th Street Apartments5363 LaGorce Drive in Miami Beach
1610-1612 Pennsylvania Avenue, Miami Beach (the only apartment block of his to feature internal balconies)
Albert Anis
Albert Anis (1889–1964) was an architect in Miami, Florida known for his Art Deco Architecture. He was one of a group of American-born architects working in Miami Beach who synthesized the austere architectural principles of the International Style Architecture with their own brand of Modernism which embraced the ornamentation and exotic lure of the tropical.
Anis was the architect for a number of outstanding Art Deco-style buildings in Chicago in the 1920s, and hotels on Ocean Drive. His vast design output would forever shape Miami Beach in the distinctive style for which it is so famous today. Among his most noted works are:
The Whitelaw Hotel (1936) 808 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach FL
Waldorf Towers Hotel (1937), Ocean Drive, Miami Beach FL
The Winterhaven Hotel (1937)
The Leslie Hotel (1937), Ocean Drive, Miami Beach FL
The Chesterfield Hotel, formally called Helmor Hotel (1938) 855 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach FL
The Traymore Hotel (1939) 2445 Collins Avenue
Clevelander Hotel (1939), Ocean Drive, Miami Beach FL
The Abbey Hotel (1940)
Majestic Hotel (1940), Ocean Drive, Miami Beach FL
The Viscay Hotel (1941)
Avalon Hotel (1941), Ocean Drive, Miami Beach FL
The Mantell Plaza (1942)
Colonade Apartments (1946) 2365 Pinetree Drive, Miami Beach FL currently called Tradewinds Apartment Hotel
Pineview Apartments (1947) 2351 Pinetree Drive, Miami Beach FL currently called Tradewinds Apartment Hotel
The Temple Emanuel (1947)
Lester Avery
Lester Avery was an architect in the United States. Avery began his career in Clearwater and is known for his Mid-Century Modern architecture apartment buildings in Miami and ranch style home designs with angled, flat roofs and merging wings. He expanded Lawrence Murray Dixon's The Temple House in Miami's South Beach area. Avery was the architect of Clearwater,Florida's Capitol Teatre (Clearwater, Florida), opened March 21, 1921. It was built by Senator-elect John Stansel Taylor and the contractor was John D. Phillipoff. He also designed the Jackie Gleason House (1959) at 2232 Alton Road in Miami.
Avery's style for residential architecture was characterized by one-story ranch designs with angled, flat top roofs and merging wings. He designed The Schubert Hotel and the Panama Club (Fort Lauderdale, Florida).
Works
Temple House, 1960s expansion to convert it into a temple. Originally constructed as a home in 1933 it was converted back into a home in 2003.
817 Ponce De Leon Drive, Rio Vista Isles A Mid-CenturyModern home.
Razel Apartments (1955), a stucco apartment complex with a flat roof designed in the Miami Modern (MiMo) Garden Style architecture. Built by Elco Builders. Symmetrical facades, open-air balconies and catwalks organized around a central open courtyard. Listed on the Miami Beach Architectural District in 1979 and the Ocean Drive/Collins Avenue District in 1986.
J. S. McNaulty House (1918) at 318 Druid in Clearwater
Gulf Oil Station (Miami, Florida) (1938) at 1700 SW 22nd Street, with Curtis E. Haley from a prototype by Russell Pancoast. Designed with Art Deco and Mediterranean Revival architecture features, the station was constructed before the standardization of gas service station architecture. It includes columns supporting the canopies over the gas pumps. Gulf Oil Company built several stations in the Miami area based on architect Russell Pancoast's prototype, but this is the only surviving example.
229 NE 101 ST, Miami Shores
The Schubert Resort (1953)
Lawrence Murray Dixon
Lawrence Murray Dixon (February 16, 1901 - October 8, 1949) was an architect in Miami Beach, Florida. He was born in Live Oak, Florida, attended the Georgia School of Technology (1918-1919) and worked in New York for Schultze and Weaver from 1923 to 1929, when he moved to Miami Beach. He is credited with designing The Temple House (1933) in the South Beach section of Miami Beach as well as other Art Deco hotels and residences.
The PBS show American Experience called Dixon and Henry Hohauser the principal architects of Deco South Beach including "streamlined curves, jutting towers, window "eyebrows," and neon."
His work in Miami Beach includes:
The Ritz Hotel- formerly Grossinger Beach Hotel, (1940), a 12-story art deco hotel topped by a cylinder tower at 1701 Collins Avenue
Arjay Court Apartments (1937) at 820 Collins Avenue now called POSH hostel by South Beach Group Hotels
Fillard Apartments (1947) at 2000 Liberty Avenue currently named Riviera Suites Hotel
The Tudor Hotel, a corner hotel with prominent signage at 1111 Collins(1939) 1111 Collins Avenue
Fairview (Miami Beach) at 1000 Collins Avenue
Kent (building) (1939) at 1131 Collins Avenue
Tides (building) (1936) at 1200 Ocean Drive
Beach Plaza (Miami Beach)(1936) at 1401 Collins Avenue
Palmer House (Miami Beach) (1939) at 1119 Collins Avenue
Marlin (building)- (1939) at 1200 Collins Avenue. Includes a ziggurat-style stepped parapet that rises above the symmetrical banded wings with rounded corners. It is topped by a central tower with a flagpole.
The Tiffany
The Victor (1937) Restored as part of the Hyatt Hotel chain
The Atlantis (demolished)
The Senator (demolished)
Harriet Court Condo (1935)
The McAlpin
The Henderson apartments
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