Lovely Casa Casaurina is the only private residence along Ocean Drive and it's also certainly Miami-Dade County's most macabre photo op. In 1992, the late haute couturier Gianni Versace bought the Amsterdam Palace apartment building to restore it to its former majesty. The building had been built in 1930 for Standard Oil treasurer Alden Freeman as a sixteenth Century Mediterranean-style villa resembling the home of Diego Columbus in the Dominican Republic. (Diego Columbus was Christopher Columbus' son.) Versace also bought the Revere Hotel next door and leveled it to build a patio and pool area. All told, he pumped more than $6.6 million into the buildings. When renovations were complete, the result was a grandiose Rococo mishmash of colors and textures - Moorish tile, fine fabrics on the walls, lavish mosaics, busts throughout, and high-profile artwork hanging from the walls. It all served to make Versace South Beach's most visible resident.
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