Cadillac Hotel
- Architect
- Melvin Grossman
- Year
- 1940
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Miami, FL
- Collection
- ocean drive deco
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The Cadillac Hotel & Beach Club, at 3925 Collins Avenue in Mid-Beach, was designed by architect Roy France in 1940 and enlarged in 1956 with an addition by Melvin Grossman. Built of concrete block with a stucco finish over a wood-piling and concrete-slab foundation, it operated as a hotel continuously except for three years, 1942 to 1945, when the U.S. military leased the building during World War II.
the building
Wartime interruption. From 1942 to 1945 the hotel was leased to the United States military, one of many Miami Beach properties requisitioned during World War II, before returning to civilian hotel use.
From Courtyard to Autograph Collection. The hotel operated for years as the Courtyard Cadillac Miami Beach/Oceanfront before closing in September 2017 for a major renovation under owner Hersha Hospitality Trust. It reopened in August 2018 as an Autograph Collection hotel by Marriott, with 357 guest rooms, two pools, meeting space, a bar, and restaurants.
the style
The Cadillac is an Art Deco hotel, its 1940 design by Roy France later expanded with a 1956 addition by Melvin Grossman, a pairing that shows how Miami Beach's Deco-era hotels kept evolving stylistically well past the style's original boom.
More on Art Decosignificance
The Cadillac Hotel & Beach Club is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both individually (added October 5, 2005) and as a contributing building in the Collins Waterfront Architectural District.