Governor Hotel
- Architect
- Henry Hohauser
- Year
- 1939
- Style
- Streamline Moderne
- City
- Miami, FL
- Collection
- ocean drive deco
The Governor Hotel opened in 1939, designed by Henry Hohauser in a Streamline Moderne take on Art Deco. It stands as part of Miami Beach's dense Deco hotel row, its streamlined massing visible from the sidewalk.
the style
Streamline Moderne shows up here in the building's massing rather than applied ornament, the rounded, horizontal lines that set this strain of Deco apart from the more vertical, decorated hotels nearby.
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