Tuesday, May 13, 2014

The way we were...Art Deco District added to National Register of Historic Places


700 Block Ocean Drive, 1980.
Photograph by Walter Smalling
via the Library of Congress. 

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Thirty-five years ago tomorrow, South Beach, with "the largest concentration of 1920s and 1930s resort architecture in the United States," becomes a historic preservation district.


Miami News, May 14, 1979.
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