The Blackstone is a residential building located at 800 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida, United States.
[2] Nathan Stone, a Jewish entrepreneur, was the developer but he died shortly before the hotel opened in 1929.
[4] In 1954, the African Methodist Church organized a convention to take place in Miami Beach and tasked local Black minister Edward Graham to find a hotel for the event.
[4] George Gershwin reportedly wrote portions of Porgy and Bess while reposing in the Blackstone Hotel's rooftop solarium.
[2][6] In the late 1980s it was renovated by George Perez into affordable housing, and was one of the first low income tax credit rehab projects in Miami Beach.