Lincoln Road

Coordinates: 25°47′26″N 80°8′11″W / 25.79056°N 80.13639°W / 25.79056; -80.13639
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Lincoln Road Mall
Alton Road. The Regal Cinema is on the right.
Lincoln Road is located in Florida
Lincoln Road
LocationMiami Beach, Florida
Coordinates25°47′26″N 80°8′11″W / 25.79056°N 80.13639°W / 25.79056; -80.13639
BuiltNovember 28, 1960; 63 years ago (1960-11-28) (grand opening)
ArchitectMorris Lapidus
NRHP reference No.11000287[1]

Lincoln Road Mall is a pedestrian road running east–west parallel between 16th Street and 17th Street in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Once completely open to vehicular traffic, it now hosts a pedestrian mall replete with shops, restaurants, galleries, and other businesses between Washington Avenue with a traffic accessible street extending east to the Atlantic Ocean and west to Alton Road with a traffic accessible street extending to Biscayne Bay.

History

Miami Modern architecture follies line Lincoln Road

Originally, Lincoln Road was a forest of

Carl Fisher cleared a strip of the mangroves from the Atlantic (east) side of the island to the Biscayne Bay (west) side of the island and it eventually became the town's social center. Fisher maintained a real estate office on Lincoln Road. Over time Lincoln Road featured premium retail destinations like Bonwit Teller, Saks Fifth Avenue, and even Cadillac and Packard
car dealerships.

In the 1950s Miami Beach architect

Miami Modern Architecture, or "MiMo", style that Lapidus pioneered in the 1950s. The road was closed to vehicular traffic and became one of the nation's early pedestrian malls and had its grand opening November 28, 1960. It billed itself as the "most magnificent mall in all of the Americas".[2]

Today Lincoln Road features a state-of-the-art multiplex cinema, the architecturally acclaimed

Viacom Latin America, as well as over 200 boutiques, local merchants, national retail stores, and fine restaurants and bars. Lincoln Road is also home to the newly restored Colony Theatre, a performing arts venue, and ArtCenter/South Florida, a collection of studios and gallery spaces for artists. Street performers entertain a constant stream of tourists and locals on Lincoln Road. It is among the most popular destinations for visitors to the South Beach area.[citation needed
]

In 2006, the Miami Beach Preservation Board approved the closure of traffic of the west end of Lincoln mall for the purpose of extending the popular pedestrian mall west to Alton Road. In 2010, Raymond Jungles designed this additional block. Jungles' created an “urban oasis” by using eye-catching materials and biofiltration plants.[3]

In 2011, the FIU School of Architecture opened a sister campus to its main campus at University Park, on Lincoln Road, with classroom spaces for FIU architecture, art, music and theater graduate students.[4]

On May 6, 2011, by recommendation of DOCOMOMO (Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement) led by architect Allan T. Shulman the thoroughfare was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Lincoln Road Mall.[5][6]

Gallery

  • Miami Beach Community Church, designed by Walter De Garmo[7]
    Miami Beach Community Church, designed by Walter De Garmo[7]
  • ArtCenter/South Florida
    ArtCenter/South Florida
  • Colony Theatre
    Colony Theatre
  • Lincoln-Drexel Building
    Lincoln-Drexel Building
  • Miami Beach Federal Building, designed by Edwin T. Reeder[8]
    Miami Beach Federal Building, designed by Edwin T. Reeder[8]

See also

References

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  1. ^ Weekly List Of Actions Taken On Properties: 5/16/11 Through 5/20/11
  2. ^ "Lincoln Road Mall advertising supplement". Miami News. November 27, 1960.
  3. ^ "1111 Lincoln Road Raymond Jungles". Arch Daily.
  4. ^ "FIU College of Architecture + the Arts to open new home on Lincoln Road". 25 May 2011.
  5. ^ "AIA Miami Historic Preservation Activities". AIA American Institute Of Architects.
  6. ^ "Weekly Actions". National Register Historic Places.
  7. ^ Munzenrieder, Kyle (14 April 2016). "Ten Iconic Miami Hotels That No Longer Stand". Miami New Times. Retrieved 27 September 2020. Designed by the first registered architect in Miami, Walter De Garmo (whose other buildings include the Miami Beach Community Church…)
  8. ^ "407 Building". Emporis.com. Retrieved 30 November 2020.[dead link]
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