The Florida Tropical House is a beach house on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Beverly Shores, Indiana, built in 1933 as part of the Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition at the Century of Progress World's Fair in nearby Chicago. Designed in the Modernist style by architect Robert Law Weed and painted a distinctive Floridian pink, it was built so that its interior and exterior spaces flow continuously into each other, and it stands within the Century of Progress Architectural District. The house, with four other 1933 exhibition homes nearby, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, collectively known as the World's Fair Houses. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Building Type LocationSourced to the subject's own accountBeverly Shores, United States 2 Completed Year Classification
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1. Florida Tropical House (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Tropical_House, lead definition
The Florida Tropical House is a beach house on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Beverly Shores, Indiana, US.
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The house, with four other 1933 exhibition homes nearby, were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. They are collectively known as the World's Fair Houses.
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1933 by Deigaard & Preston for $15,000
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The Florida Tropical House is a beach house on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Beverly Shores, Indiana, US. It was built in 1933 as part of the Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition at the 1933 World's Fair in nearby Chicago. It is part of the Century of Progress Architectural District, a historic district.
After years of disrepair, the house is being renovated and is subleased to a private renter who has a
In Style: Modernist Architecture, Infobox: architecture
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Although it was planned to be built with poured concrete walls, the house was framed in wood in order to save money.
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The exterior is covered with a lightweight concrete stucco painted in pink.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Beverly Shores, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Beverly Shores, United States
Wikidata item Q1430087, property P131/P17 (location): Beverly Shores, United States
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