In 2008, City Staff and the City’s Preservation Consultant performed an Architectural Resources Survey of the Central Beach area in the City of Fort Lauderdale. Results of the 2008 survey identified four areas where potential historic districts could be formed (Birch Estates, Sunrise Lane, Harbor Drive, and Lauder-Del-Mar) as well as individual structures that were identified as either existing landmarks or potential landmarks. This initial survey was meant to be a preliminary study to identify areas and primarily used a fifty-year guideline as a basis for making determinations of whether to include a structure as contributing within the previous survey. 

Between May through July of 2017 an in-the-field survey was conducted of Central Beach to update survey efforts that previously took place. This survey expands on the analysis of properties to determine a status as contributing and non-contributing to each of the proposed districts, as well as the development of additional historic context in which determinations of status were made.
Below are links to the 2017 Architectural Resource Survey Report and appendices:

Central Beach Survey Report
Appendix A – Birch Estates
Appendix B – Sunrise Lane
Appendix C – Harbor Drive
Appendix D – Lauder-del-Mar
Appendix E – Potential Historic Landmarks
Appendix F – Glossary of Architectural Terms