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Art Deco District Welcome Center review 3 Users say 4/5 Rate it
Forget the sand: the best thing about South Beach is its sleek, streamlined, iridescent architecture, easily explored on foot. Unlike the grandiose power-tripping of its New York or Chicago relatives, Miami art deco is as giddy as a 1920s flapper decked out in beads and baubles. More than 800 buildings from the 1930s and early '40s survive in the city's historic Deco District, between 5th Street to the south and Dade Boulevard to the north. There's no single masterpiece, but the high concentration of flamboyant styles makes for a theatrical streetscape.
It's incredible to think that these buildings were almost destroyed by developers in the early 1970s. The Art Deco District Welcome Center is run by the MPDL, which first sprang into action when it tried to save two blocks of Ocean Drive, from 12th to 14th Streets.
Art Deco District Welcome Center details
Area Miami
Transport Bus C, H, K, W, South Beach Local.
Telephone 305 672 2014
Guided deco walking tours 10.30am daily except Monday and Thursday; Thursday evening tours 6.30pm ($20; $15 reductions). Self-guided audio tours 10am to 4pm ($15). Open 10am-7pm daily.
Admission free.
Comments & ratings 4/5 (Average of 3 ratings)
The Art Deco Welcome Center is located at 1001 Ocean Drive. Please update! Thanks!
The Art Deco Welcome Center is located at 1001 Ocean Drive. Please update! Thanks!
Fall and Winter are also awesome times to be here. Dry weather, events and things to do return to town from the slowdown in Summer. Art Deco is also easy to walk, very close to the city and places like Coconut Grove, if you want to drive to the Keys it's less than 2 hours, the place to be.
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Miami Beaches Art Deco district is amazing! I feel like im in the Miami vice era all over again. I'll share this article I found:
http://miamibeach.org/directory/visitor-center/art-deco-district
Keep those beaches clean
First TimeOut has outdated information on the days of the tours. Nonetheless we took the tour and were half bored. We took another Art Deco Tour with artdecotours[dot]com! Fascinating and fun. It cost a little more but so worth it!
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