Lincoln Road, pedestrian road running east-west parallel between 16th Street and 17th Street in Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Lincoln Road is a pedestrian mall in Miami Beach that runs through the heart of the city with shops, restaurants, and galleries lining both sides. The street features an open design with shade trees and connects different neighborhoods, serving as a central commercial and cultural hub.
Lincoln Road began as a mangrove strip that Carl Fisher cleared in 1912 from the Atlantic side to Biscayne Bay, and it became the town's social centre; Fisher kept a real estate office there. In the 1950s architect Morris Lapidus redesigned it with gardens, fountains, shelters and an amphitheatre in the Miami Modern style, and the road closed to cars, opening as a pedestrian mall on 28 November 1960. In 2006 the west end was closed to extend the mall to Alton Road, with a block designed by Raymond Jungles in 2010; it joined the National Register of Historic Places on 6 May 2011.
The mall runs east–west between 16th and 17th Streets, from Washington Avenue to Alton Road; the western block to Alton Road was added in 2010 and designed by Raymond Jungles with biofiltration planting. The Alton Road end is marked by a green street sign on a mast arm above the crossing. The surface is level paving throughout, so the whole length is walkable on foot.
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