Avalon Hotel, 700 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Florida USA / Built: 1941 / Architect: Albert Anis / Builder: Prufert Construction Co. / Floors: 3 / Structural System: Concrete Block / Architectural Style: Art Deco

This is a 3-story domestic building in the Art Deco style built in 1941. The structural system is concrete block. The foundation is spread footing. The exterior walls are stucco. The building has a flat parapet roof and unspecified dormers. 4 decorative panels just below the recessed roof cornice line Windows are replacement aluminum single-hung sashes. SHS; Metal casement; Paired; Corrugated stucco moldings underneath window panes on the tower; Continuous eyebrows over the whole 2nd and 3rd story windows; Eyebrows of corner windows of tower are unattached to the eyebrows extending towards northern side There is a single-story, wrap-around open porch characterized by a flat roof clad in stuccoed with rectangular stuccoed posts. Porch facing East is incised into main building structure; Porch facing South is open, colored terrazzo flooring with the title of building inlaid; 3 massive columns supporting concrete covering; Balustrade delimitating porch area are thick stucco casts with block pattern hinting the same patterns found in the five bar-shaped decorative elements above third story eyebrow Three steps lead to entrance lobby; Racing tracks carved in the upper portion of the wall (3) and ceiling (2); Decorative moldings on top of openings of main lobby wall composed of 6 horizontally aligned roundels; Black marble-like entrance desk; Colored and patterned terrazzo flooring.

Late Art Deco structure; Five horizontal decorative bar-shaped elements; Tower extending in height above roofline on the southern side of East elevation and creating 4th story space; Long concrete covering above main floor and wrapping around the south side of elevation; Neon hotel sign just above concrete covering; Asymmetrical in composition on the facade facing East; Terrazzo floor design; Decorative sculptural panels below the roofline on the east and south elevations; Three-part stacked cantilevered ledge ornaments parapet; Corner, wrap-around windows and eyebrows; Three-part stacked eyebrow for ornamentation at the southeast corner.

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Taken in: United States / Florida / South Miami Beach (show map)

Taken on: May 31, 2021

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