Raleigh Hotel
- Architect
- Lawrence Murray Dixon
- Year
- 1940
- Style
- Streamline Moderne
- City
- Miami, FL
- Collection
- ocean drive deco
The Raleigh Hotel opened in 1940 at 1775 Collins Avenue, designed by Lawrence Murray Dixon in the Streamline Moderne mode of Miami Beach's Art Deco district. It cost $225,000 to build and changed hands quickly — a half interest sold for $90,000 in 1941, then the whole hotel for $1 million to a group of Boston investors in 1946 — before its 1979 listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Today it's best known for its star-shaped pool.
the building
The star-shaped pool. The Raleigh's pool, cut in the shape of a star, is the hotel's signature feature and one of the most photographed pools on Miami Beach.
the style
The Raleigh is built in the Streamline Moderne strain of Art Deco, part of the wave of hotels that gave Miami Beach's Collins Avenue its unified 1930s-40s skyline.
More on Streamline Modernesignificance
The Raleigh was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Closed since Hurricane Irma damaged it in 2017, the hotel has passed through several ownership groups; a 2022 plan to reopen it in 2027 as Rosewood The Raleigh Miami Beach was thrown into question in 2025 when legal and financial troubles forced developer SHVO to sell the property to Nahla Capital.
nearby
- The Richmond
- South Seas Hotel
- Shelborne South Beach
- Marseilles Hotel
- Nautilus Hotel
- Kimpton Surfcomber Hotel