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Posted On: October 12th 2026, 08:17 pm
Today marks 38 years since demolition started on the Senator Hotel at 1201 Collins Avenue.
Miami Design Preservation League founder Barbara Baer Capitman fought tirelessly to protect the L. Murray Dixon-designed hotel back in 1988. On the days leading up to the demolition, protesters chained themselves to the building’s door, and Capitman was photographed being escorted off the property by a Miami Beach officer after initially refusing to leave.
MDPL and other local preservationists spent the previous year organizing meetings and protests as part of the “Save The Senator” campaign. Their efforts stalled demolition by more than a year.
📸 Historical photos via @museumofmiami / MDPL archives
Miami Design Preservation League founder Barbara Baer Capitman fought tirelessly to protect the L. Murray Dixon-designed hotel back in 1988. On the days leading up to the demolition, protesters chained themselves to the building’s door, and Capitman was photographed being escorted off the property by a Miami Beach officer after initially refusing to leave.
MDPL and other local preservationists spent the previous year organizing meetings and protests as part of the “Save The Senator” campaign. Their efforts stalled demolition by more than a year.
📸 Historical photos via @museumofmiami / MDPL archives
Comments (12)
23 days agojane_krupp_color
Miami Beach does not value or promote Heritage Tourism- The Prom Commission is busy dumping events in our green space and branding something called culture “crawl”- a total insult to education and the arts
23 days agonoelsuarezartist_miami
I was one of those lying on the street right next to Barbara Capitman and Matty Bower. We put up an amazing fight, unfortunately more fighting needs to be done.
24 days agoragingramona
Depressing. And we are still fighting the same fight. We are still losing beautiful historical buildings and structures left and right.
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