The Blackstone, residential in Florida, United States
The Blackstone is a 13-story Mediterranean Revival building at 800 Washington Avenue, designed by B. Kingston Hall and opened in 1929 as the Blackstone Hotel. Its mission tile roof rests on exposed rafters, and a clock on top concealed the hotel's elevator machinery. It is now a residential building.
Developer Nathan Stone died shortly before the Blackstone Hotel opened in 1929; his son Alfred Stone finished the 13-story building and ran it. It remained Miami Beach's tallest building for seven years. In 1954 Alfred Stone housed an African Methodist Church convention despite threats and a boycott, and in the 1950s Michael Sossin converted the hotel into a retirement home.
The Blackstone stands at 800 Washington Avenue in Miami Beach, a corner address in the South Beach grid a few blocks inland from the oceanfront. The building is a private residence, so visitors see it from the street; the clock and mission tile roof are best viewed from below on Washington Avenue.
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