Casa Casuarina, Private mansion in South Beach, Miami Beach, US
Casa Casuarina is a private residence in Mediterranean Revival style with three floors and an observatory in South Beach, Miami Beach. The building displays mosaics and pebbled walls throughout several opulent rooms.
Alden Freeman, heir to the Standard Oil fortune, commissioned architect Ronin Wolf in 1930 to build his private residence. Over the following decades the building changed hands several times and was eventually converted into a hotel.
The estate takes its name from the Australian casuarina tree and displays courtyards with colonnades and handcrafted ceramic work. The rooms combine Spanish colonial elements with Venetian mosaic patterns that decorate walls and floors.
The estate now operates as a boutique hotel with ten suites in different categories. Visitors can explore the restaurant that serves Italian Mediterranean cuisine in the richly decorated historic rooms.
A time capsule was hidden in the walls during construction by original owner Alden Freeman. The container remains in its original location and has never been opened.
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