Hotels in Miami used to look like that? See landmarks that helped put the 305 on map
Miami Herald Archives
The Americana. The Dupont Plaza. The Everglades.
These are some of the grand hotels that helped put Miami on the map. Now, they are just memories, replaced with luxury towers.
What were hotels like in the old days? Many had Mediterranean or MiMo designs. Grand lobbies. Showrooms with bands and theatrical productions.
Let’s take a look back at some of these old hotels in the archives of the Miami Herald:
Roney Plaza
The original Roney Plaza in Miami Beach in 1946.
Americana
Americana hotel in Bal Harbour. I was demolished in 2007, and a St. Regis resort is now on the site.
Another view of the Americana in Bal Harbour in 1979, before it became a Sheraton.
Americana Hotel as seen from the Atlantic.
The Americana hotel lobby in 1977.
Dupont Plaza
The Dupont stood where the Royal Palm hotel was located in the Henry Flagler years.
Dupont Plaza on the bayfront, seen in 1996.
The lower floors of the Dupont Plaza hotel in 1969.
Dupont Plaza, flanked by with highway ramps, seen in 1968 from first National Bank Building.
Dupont Plaza in dowtown Miami in 1968.
Everglades / Columbus / McAllister
The WTVJ television tower on the top of the Everglades Hotel.
In 1952, the Everglades Hotel in downtown Miami.
The desk at the Everglades Hotel in 1979.
Construction site in 1970 between Flagler and First streets with McAllister hotel in background.
In 1960, the Columbus Hotel’s Vizcaya Room.
The Vizcaya Room at the Columbus Hotel in 1960.
Everglades Hotel room in 1960.
Rubble of the Mcalaster hotel next to the Columbus hotel in downtown Miami. Both were demolished.
Twins contest and an underwater egg hunt at the Everglades pool in 1960.
The Everglades Hotel overlooking Bayfront Park, shown in the process of having its entire exterior refinished.
Castaways
Castaways Motel in 1968 in what became Sunny Isles Beach. It is now the site of the Oceania condo complex.
The entrance to the Castaways in 1978.
Nautilus
In 1949, the Nautilus Hotel, now the site of Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach.
The inside of the Nautilus.
Great Southern
The Great Southern Hotel historical photo of 1920s building near Young Circle in Hollywood.
Great Southern Hotel was demolished several years, replaced with a residential tower and a replica facade.
Deauville
The original McFadden Deauville in Miami Beach, before being replaced by the MiMo hotel Deauville, which also was demolished,
The Deauville pool, built in the 1920s, was later expanded Into a hotel in the 1930s.
LAST LOOK at the McFadden Deauville hotel swimming pool, something of a landmark on Miami Beach is afforded here. This was the first Olympic-sized States. Pete Desjardins, Miami’s first Olympian, trained in it. Now the hotel is being torn down to make way for a new one.
Musicians Pat and Doris McCormick played at the Carillon and Deauville hotels from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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