Collins Avenue
William Lehman Causeway) / SR A1A in Sunny Isles Beach | |
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| Construction | |
| Inauguration | 1945 renumbering (definition) |
Collins Avenue, partly co-signed State Road A1A, is a major thoroughfare in South Florida, United States. The road runs parallel to the Atlantic Ocean in Miami Beach, Florida, one block west. It also runs through the cities of Surfside and Sunny Isles Beach to the north. Collins Avenue was named for John S. Collins, a developer who, in 1913, completed Miami’s first bridge, Collins Bridge, connecting Miami Beach to the mainland across Biscayne Bay.
Background
Collins Avenue is home to many historic Art Deco hotels, and several nightclubs to the north.
North of 41st Street this boulevard lies between the Atlantic Ocean and the
Fontainebleau Hotel, built in the curvy, flamboyant Neo-baroque fashion that defined the 1950s "Miami Beach" resort hotel style.[2]
Significant events
The annual
partially collapsed
, resulting in 98 fatalities.
References
- ^ Florida Department of Transportation. "FDOT GIS data". Archived from the original on August 4, 2007. Retrieved June 27, 2007.
- ^ The Collins Avenue Story - Absolutely Florida
Further reading
- Kleinberg, Howard, Woggles and cheese holes : the story of Miami Beach hotels, Miami Beach, FL : Greater Miami & The Beaches Hotel Association, 2005. ISBN 0-9771340-0-8
- Kleinberg, Howard, Miami Beach : a history, Miami, FL : Centennial Press, 1994.
- Lejeune, Jean-François, et al., The making of Miami Beach, 1933-1942: the architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon, Miami : Bass Museum of Art, 2000
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