Lincoln Road
pedestrian road running east-west parallel between 16th Street and 17th Street in Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Lincoln Road is a street in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. The most famous section is Lincoln Road Mall, a pedestrian road running east–west parallel between 16th Street and 17th Street. Once completely open to vehicular traffic, the pedestrian mall is replete with shops, restaurants, galleries, and other businesses between Washington Avenue with a traffic accessible street extending east to the Atlantic Ocean and west to Alton Road with a traffic accessible street extending to Biscayne Bay.
History
Originally, Lincoln Road was a forest of mangroves, as was most of Miami Beach. In 1912, Carl Fisher cleared a strip of the mangroves from the Atlantic (east) side of the island to the Biscayne Bay (west) side of the island and it eventually became the town's social center. Fisher maintained a real estate office on Lincoln Road. Over time Lincoln Road featured premium retail destinations like Bonwit Teller, Saks Fifth Avenue, and even Cadillac and Packard car dealerships.
In the 1950s Miami Beach architect Morris Lapidus, whose credits include Miami Beach's Fountainebleau and Eden Roc hotels, was commissioned to redesign Lincoln Road. Lapidus' design for Lincoln Road, complete with gardens, fountains, shelters and an amphitheater, reflected the Miami Modern Architecture, or "MiMo", style that Lapidus pioneered in the 1950s. The road was closed to vehicular traffic and became one of the nation's early pedestrian malls and had its grand opening November 28, 1960.
The public source identifies “Lincoln Road” as pedestrian road running east-west parallel between 16th Street and 17th Street in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lincoln, Road and pedestrian.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3241310. Authority coordinates are 25.791, -80.136. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1912 and 1960.
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