Miami Beach - Washington Avenue

Miami Beach's principal business and shopping street is Washington Avenue, which also has a number of notable Art Deco buildings. The George Washington Hotel (534 Washington Avenue; by William P. Brown, 1924) was one of the first seafront hotels in Miami Beach. Other fine examples of Art Deco are the Taft Hotel (1044 Washington Avenue; by Hohauser, 1936), the Kenmore (1050 Washington Avenue; by Antom Skislewicz, 1936), the Main Post Office (1300 Washington Avenue; by Howard L. Cheney, 1939), in Federal Deco style, with a decorative rotunda, and Old City Hall (1130 Washington Avenue; by Martin Luther Hampton, 1927).