Post #613263 by TikiTomD on Tue, Nov 8, 2011 3:40 PM

Swanky, I’ll have to defer to someone else on your question.

Trav, that’s an excellent urban archaeology assignment for someone in the neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale. I’d recommend a call to the Building Department in advance to determine records accessibility. It’s pretty unlikely that 50 years of permits will be available in the same place, especially South Florida where the population growth means whole forests of paper have been received and processed over the decades. I’m sure that official records like real estate transactions are all on microfiche, but building permits and their associated design and drawing submittals may not be.

I searched the Broward County Property Appraiser’s records and came up with the following outline sketch of the Mai-Kai with perimeter dimensions in feet. I labeled the A-frame portion. The left side of the drawing faces east and the top of the drawing faces south. The driveway is at the bottom. That may be useful to you in creating your model...

-Tom