The Betsy Hotel, South Beach
- Architect
- Lawrence Murray Dixon
- Year
- 1942
- Style
- Colonial Revival
- City
- Miami, FL
The Betsy Hotel opened in 1942, designed by Lawrence Murray Dixon, the architect behind many of South Beach's Art Deco hotels — but here he broke from that vocabulary to design in Colonial Revival style, making the Betsy a deliberate outlier among its Deco neighbors.
the style
Colonial Revival, with its columns and symmetrical, historicist facade, stands apart from the streamlined Art Deco that defines most of South Beach, making the Betsy one of the district's most conspicuous stylistic exceptions.
More on Colonial Revivalthe architect
Lawrence Murray Dixon was one of the most prolific architects of Miami Beach's Art Deco district, so his choice to design the Betsy in Colonial Revival marks a notable departure within his own body of work.