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Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store (Miami, Florida)

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After the area's drastic decline in the early 1980s, the building's intense structural decay, and declining sales, the store closed for good in 1983. The building remained vacant and abandoned and was the subject to graffiti and vandalism. Sears was unable to sell the property and it donated the site
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The building listing was added to the National Register on August 8, 1997. By 2001, the only surviving part of the original structure was a seven-story tower. The original department store space had been demolished. The tower was preserved and incorporated it into the new
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architecture in the county and was spectacular. It was followed a year later by the
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Artist rendering of the Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store in a postcard
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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
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to Dade County in 1992. That same year, the Sears signs were removed.
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Nimmons, Carr & Wright; Harrison Construction Co.
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store (Miami, Florida) is located in Miami
Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store (Miami, Florida) is located in Florida
Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store (Miami, Florida) is located in the United States
Miami, Florida
25°47′14″N 80°11′24″W / 25.78722°N 80.19000°W / 25.78722; -80.19000
MPS
Downtown Miami MRA
84003903
Miami, Florida
Art Deco
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Art Deco
Shrine Building (Miami, Florida)
National Register of Historic Places
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Burdines
Art Deco
Art Deco hotels
Ocean Drive
Miami Beach
Aerial view in the 1920s
Just the tower survives
Downtown Miami Multiple Resource Area



"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places

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