Clinton Hotel Miami Beach or The New Clinton Hotel And Spa is an Art Deco

Art Deco

Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...

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Hotel

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 located in Miami Beach, Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

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History and Renovation

Clinton Hotel Miami Beach was originally built in the 1930s by architect Charles Neidler. The Clinton Hotel was renovated in 2004 by designer Eric Raffy. The total cost of the renovation was 12 million dollars. The New Clinton Hotel and Spa

Spa

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 is in the heart of Miami’s South Beach

South Beach

South Beach, also nicknamed SoBe, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States. It is the area south of Indian Creek and encompasses roughly the southernmost 23 blocks of the main barrier island that separates the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay.This area was the first...

. As part of the renovation, several of the Clinton's rooms were restored to their original 1930s state. This included purchased items found as part of the TV series American Pickers

American Pickers

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. The most costly portion of the renovation however was re-finishing the basement of the hotel. When the facility was built in the 1930s, the hotel basement was never intended to be used by guests. Instead, Neidler designed the basement to be part storage/part animal mausoleum for wealthy South Beach pet owners. While the hotel stopped selling mausoleum sites in 1954, several pets remained on site until the 2004 renovation, including a parrot named Babalu who was owned by Desi Arnez, and a dog named Fido, which was the prize position of Clark Gable

Clark Gable

William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...

, who frequented the Clinton after retiring from the pictures. During the renovation, all remaining pet remains were reunited with family members and have been relocated to new resting places in the greater Miami area.

External links

Clinton Hotel Miami Beach Website

Sources

• Travel, The Palm Beach Post Sunday
• Hotel Business
• Sinclair Holden, Miami Historical Society