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Niagara Mohawk Building, Syracuse, NY, USA

I've uploaded pictures of this building before, but I had never seen it at night. I could say my photos are bad because I didn't have a tripod, but they would turn out bad anyways. As I really want to share them with you, here they go. This night it was lit to mark "Pink October".

 

According to the National Park Service:

 

"The Niagara Hudson Building in Syracuse is an outstanding example of Art Deco architecture and a symbol of the Age of Electricity. Completed in 1932, the building became the headquarters for the nation’s largest electric utility company and expressed the technology of electricity through its modernistic design, material, and extraordinary program of exterior lighting. The design elements applied by architects Melvin L. King and Bley & Lyman transformed a corporate office tower into a widely admired beacon of light and belief in the future. With its central tower and figurative winged sculpture personifying electric lighting, the powerfully sculpted and decorated building offered a symbol of optimism and progress in the context of the Great Depression."

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Uploaded on October 21, 2016