MIAMI MARINE STADIUM Move to save Miami Marine Stadium gets historic boost
A scrappy campaign to save the long-shuttered Miami Marine Stadium, increasingly admired as a masterpiece of modern architecture, will get a major boost Tuesday when the country’s principal preservation group names the city-owned site as one of the most endangered historic places in the United States.
Inclusion on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of 11 most-endangered historic sites puts the marine stadium, largely forgotten until a group of architects and preservationists launched a save-the-stadium effort, in the company of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple outside Chicago, the Manhattan Project’s Enola Gay hangar in Utah and Los Angeles’ Century Plaza Hotel — designed by the architect of the World Trade Center.
Early city plans showed a marina that would constrain use of the popular basin. Without open water, preservationists argue, the grandstand would be little more than a relic. City planners have been revising the concept for more than a year, but nothing has been issued publicly.
”If you remove the basin, it’s like a baseball stadium without the diamond,” Hernandez said.
The stadium was nominated for the National Trust list by Friends of Miami Marine Stadium, www.marinestadium.org, which plans a demonstration outside the site’s gate on the Rickenbacker Causeway at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The group also is planning a series of events to raise funds and awareness of the stadium.
Release of the National Trust list — and the marine stadium’s inclusion — coincides with the group’s launch of an initiative to highlight the need to save Modernist buildings, many of which are under threat of demolition or falling into deterioration. The often-austere style, which fell into disfavor as the century wore on, has found new adherents among young architects, preservationists and design fans.
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