| Hotel Construction |
| Year | Month | Day | Event | Related
Resource |
| 1894 | February | 11 | Henry Flagler's Royal Poinciana Hotel opened in Palm Beach. | display |
| 1897 | January | 16 | The Hotel Royal Palm opened for business fifteen days behind schedule. Henry Flagler built the hotel at a cost of $750,000 to draw passengers onto his new railroad line extending to Miami. The hotel stood until 1931. | display |
| 1906 | January | 20 | The Halcyon Hall Hotel opened in Miami on the later site of the Dupont building. | display |
| 1914 | | | The W.J. Brown Hotel opened on Miami Beach. It was the first hotel to open on the island. | |
| 1920 | | | Carl Fisher's Roman Pools and Casino open at 22nd Street and the Ocean. | display |
December | 31 | The Flamingo Hotel opened at 15th Street and the Bay on New Year's Eve. | display | | 1924 | January | 10 | The Nautilus Hotel opened for business on the present site of the Mount Sinai Hospital. | display |
| 1925 | | | The Floridian Hotel was built. | display |
| 1926 | January | | The Roney Plaza Hotel was completed and opened for business. | display |
January | | The Biltmore Hotel was completed after ten months of construction for a cost of $10 million. | display | | 1935 | | | The Miami area began to emerge from the Great Depression. The recovery in South Florida preceded that which occurred in other cities. By the mid-1930s, a string of new hotels built in the Art Deco style began to rise from the ruin caused by not only the Depression, but the hurricane of 1926. | |
| 1939 | | | The Clevelander Hotel opened at 10th and Ocean Drive. | |
| 1948 | | | The Saxony Hotel opened in Miami Beach. It was designed by Roy France, who also designed the National Hotel of 1940. The Modernist Saxony was part of a new generation of hotels built in Miami and Miami Beach. It and many of the other new buildings lacked the ornamental Art Deco motifs that were to be seen for the last times in the designs of the Sherry Frontenac and the Delano hotels. | display |
| 1949 | | | The Casablanca Hotel opened. Roy France designed the hotel, which was named after the famous film staring Humphrey Bogart. The hotel can be described as Modernist in its design, but it also incorporated elements of the International Style and Hollywood-themed kitsch. The latter of these came to influence the way developers in Las Vegas, Nevada designed their resorts decades later. | display |
| 1951 | | | The Bombay Hotel opened. The hotel's name was later changed to the Golden Sands Hotel. It was the first hotel in Miami Beach to offer its guests a parking garage. Norman M. Giller designed the building. On why his was the first hotel to have a garage, Giller said that, "in the Art Deco days we were in a Depression, so nobody was thinking about cars, because not too many people had them." | |
| 1953 | | | The Lido Spa opened on Belle Isle along the Venetian Causeway. | |
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