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Art Deco door and window treatment in mid-Miami Beach

Title: Art Deco door and window treatment in mid-Miami Beach

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An Art Deco door treatment on a private home in Miami Beach features a Nautical Moderne-style porthole window. This Streamline Moderne classic was built in 1948 by the Parmount Dining Car Company in New Jersey and served traditional American food in provincial Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania for 44 years -- until 1992, when three young entrepreneurs moved the stainless steel and glass brick structure to South Beach and reopened it there with great success as the 11th Street Diner. The Collins Park Hotel in Miami Beach, designed by Henry Hohauser in 1939, features undulating, wave-like walls and Nautical Moderne porthole windows, as befitting a seaside resort town. This photo is from the early 1990s; but the building was later gutted by fire.