Empress Hotel
- Architect
- Melvin Grossman
- Year
- 1952
- Style
- Mid-Century Modern
- City
- Miami, FL
- Collection
- mimo — miami modern
The Empress Hotel dates to 1952, designed by Melvin Grossman for the strip of Mid-Beach hotels rising north of the established Art Deco district. Grossman was one of the defining postwar Miami Beach architects, and the Empress reflects the Miami Modern style that overtook Deco as the city's dominant hotel idiom.
the style
Miami Modern, or MiMo, is the style on display here: a break from the streamlined Art Deco of South Beach toward bolder, car-oriented massing built for the resort boom of the 1950s.
More on Mid-Century Modernthe architect
Melvin Grossman was a prominent postwar Miami Beach architect associated with the MiMo movement, designing hotels along the Mid-Beach corridor as it developed through the 1950s.