hotelHotel Impossible · Season 5, Episode 1 · Aired October 7, 2014
Streamline Hotel
Daytona Beach, Florida
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
What happened after
Restored 1940 Art Deco hotel, historically significant as NASCAR's founding location (1947); official site directly fetched with live booking CTA.
What happened on the show
Melchiorri's Daytona stop was a genuine piece of American history: the Streamline, a 1940 Art Deco hotel on South Atlantic Avenue that is remembered as the birthplace of NASCAR, where the sport's founding meeting took place in 1947. The episode, Crash Course in Daytona, took on a restoration-worthy landmark that had fallen far from its glory. A property with that much historical weight carries an irreplaceable draw and the heavy burden of a building in need of serious revival. Anthony's task was the landmark balance at its most dramatic: honor the Art Deco character and the racing legacy while confronting the deep neglect. He audited the rooms and the money behind them, urging the operators to treat the history as the marketable asset it was and to bring the property back to a standard worthy of its story. The fix aimed to restart a hotel that helped start a sport.
After the cameras left
The Streamline made a full comeback. As of our 2026 verification the restored 1940 Art Deco hotel is open, with a directly checked official site running a live booking call to action, at its 140 South Atlantic Avenue address, and it leans firmly into its identity as the birthplace of NASCAR. Its traveler-review profile carries a strong four-and-a-half-star average across a few hundred entries. A landmark that arrived on the show badly faded is now a restored, well-reviewed destination. Confirmed operating as of 2026.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.