SUNSHINE STATE ARCH Miami Gardens, Florida
National Register of Historic Places Data
SUNSHINE STATE ARCH has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000210
- Date Listed
- May 19, 2014
- Name
- Sunshine State Arch
- Other Names
- The Arch of Industry; FMSF# DA11167
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- Jct. of NW. 13th Ave. & NW. 167th St.
- City/Town
- Miami Gardens
- County
- Dade
- State
- Florida
- Category
- structure
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
"The Sunshine State Arch is significant at the local level under Criterion C in the area of Architecture as an example of a Mid-Century Modem structure standing at the entrance to the Sunshine State International Park. It was inspired by the monumental Gateway Arch in St. Louis designed by Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen and German-American structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947. The Sunshine State was finished in 1964, three years before the Gateway Arch. It was designed by Walter C. Harry Associates and constructed by Webb Construction Company, and lifted into position by Poston Bridge and Iron Company. The Sunshine State Arch is the tallest historic parabolic structure in the state of Florida. The arch is such an integral part of the landscape that the city ofMiami Gardens chose to include the arch in its official seal after incorporating in 2003. The Sunshine State Arch of Industry has stylized characteristics derived from the Miami Modem (MiMo) architectural style of South Florida that developed in the 1940s-1960s. The arch expresses the Miami Modem style through its modernist simplicity of form. Construction of the arch was inaugurated on July 16, 1964 and took three months to complete, with the ""piecing together"" of the mammoth project taking three days into position by seven 120-foot boom cranes. The parabolic arch structure was made to withstand 200-mile-per-hour winds, which is important during hurricane season in South Florida. The Arch cost $100,000 to construct. The Sunshine Arch is in excellent condition and has not suffered any alterations other than resurfacing and painting. "
