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The once-luxurious Miami Beach hotel, which hosted the Beatles and President John F. Kennedy in its heyday in the 1960s, collapsed on Sunday after falling into disrepair and abandonment in recent years.
The 17-storey Deauville hotel fell after triggering a series of explosions, sending a cloud of dust.
The hotel was built in 1957, and the Beatles played there in 1964, recording six songs for the Ed Sullivan Show, with an estimated TV audience of 70 million.
Mr. Kennedy spoke at the 1961 Young Democrats convention at the hotel, where celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones and Sammy Davis Jr. performed.
The property fell into disrepair over the years and closed in 2017 due to an electrical fire.
Miami Beach officials and the family that owns the hotel have been fined millions of dollars for various violations.
It is unclear what will happen to the land now.
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, a billionaire developer in New York, wants to buy the property and build a 350-foot-tall (107-meter-tall) hotel and apartment complex, but plans are in limbo.
The area has a 200-foot (61-meter) height limit and a city ballot measure that would have failed construction on Tuesday.
City officials said Mr Ross may still be interested in buying the land if an alternative plan can be worked out.
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