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"Ohio Bell, will you dominate us with limestone telephony!" clamored the people of Dayton back then. "We are small!"
Dayton was significantly more populous in 1930 than it is now!
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In downtown Dayton, Ohio, on October 12th, 2019, the AT&T Building (built in 1930 as the Ohio Bell Building, designed by Schenck & Williams) at the northeast corner of North Perry Street and West 2nd Street.
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A wonderful example of art deco in Tulsa
The Adams Hotel is located on a lot in the heart of the Central Business District of Tulsa. Built by I. S. Mincks to capitalize on the 1928 International Petroleum Exposition, the building has thirteen floors, with a full basement and penthouse. A 1935 liquidation sale gave it new owners and a new name: the Adams Hotel.
The Adams facade is widely recognized as an excellent example of glazed terra-cotta veneering. Produced by the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company, the terra cotta pastel blues and reds are still quite noticeable, and the individual tile units are sound, with tight mortar joints. The architectural style of the facade is eclectic, in the mood of the 1893 to 1917 period when architects felt free to use any and all decorative motifs as they saw fit. Its highly ornate facade is an imaginative combination of Gothic, Italian Renaissance, and Baroque decorations. Terra cotta is also used extensively in the interior of the building in the lobby, coffee shop, and stairwell.
The hotel was listed in the National Register on November 7, 1978, under National Register Criterion C, and its NRIS number is 78002273.
Title
South Station - Eight-Sided Information Booth, Clock, Brass Geometric and Zigzag Pattern, Square Stand, Women, Standing or in Blurred Motion, Newsstand, Train Gates in Background
Contributors
researcher: Gyorgy Kepes (American, 1906-2001)
researcher: Kevin Lynch (American, 1918-1984)
photographer: Nishan Bichajian (American, 20th century)
Date
creation date: April 20, 1957
Location
Creation location: Boston (Massachusetts, United States)
Repository: Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
ID: Kepes/Lynch Collection, 80.08
Period
Modern
Materials
gelatin silver prints
Techniques
documentary photography
Type
Photograph
Copyright
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access Statement
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Identifier
KL_001954
DSpace_Handle
St Laurence’s Memorial School in Leongatha’s Ogilvy Street was opened on March 24th 1957 by the Bishop of Sale, the Most Reverend Richard Ryan.
Built of stuccoed brick, St Laurence’s Memorial School is a beautiful example of post-war Art Deco architecture. The scalloped edge of the parapet, the stepped skyline, the emphatic vertical piers and the streamlined windows of rippled glass all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Art Deco architecture that was so popular and iconic before the Second World War.
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
These plans are my guess-timated interpretation of the original 1931 hotel based entirely on Google images & information, as I've not visited the site. I know some of the details are incorrect but have no additonal sources right now to verify everything. If anybody knows where I might find actual original blueprints of the building, I'd be forever indebted for a link! (There must have been a service elevator, but I haven't been able to figure out its location ...)
A wonderful example of art deco in Tulsa
The Adams Hotel is located on a lot in the heart of the Central Business District of Tulsa. Built by I. S. Mincks to capitalize on the 1928 International Petroleum Exposition, the building has thirteen floors, with a full basement and penthouse. A 1935 liquidation sale gave it new owners and a new name: the Adams Hotel.
The Adams facade is widely recognized as an excellent example of glazed terra-cotta veneering. Produced by the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company, the terra cotta pastel blues and reds are still quite noticeable, and the individual tile units are sound, with tight mortar joints. The architectural style of the facade is eclectic, in the mood of the 1893 to 1917 period when architects felt free to use any and all decorative motifs as they saw fit. Its highly ornate facade is an imaginative combination of Gothic, Italian Renaissance, and Baroque decorations. Terra cotta is also used extensively in the interior of the building in the lobby, coffee shop, and stairwell.
The hotel was listed in the National Register on November 7, 1978, under National Register Criterion C, and its NRIS number is 78002273.
Although all the rooms of the Rone - Empire installation exhibition are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one of them. It features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface.
Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.
The National Hotel in ground outdoor swimming pool photographed at night.
The National Hotel
1677 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 532-2311
Photo
Miami Beach Florida
11-24-2010
A wonderful example of art deco in Tulsa
The Adams Hotel is located on a lot in the heart of the Central Business District of Tulsa. Built by I. S. Mincks to capitalize on the 1928 International Petroleum Exposition, the building has thirteen floors, with a full basement and penthouse. A 1935 liquidation sale gave it new owners and a new name: the Adams Hotel.
The Adams facade is widely recognized as an excellent example of glazed terra-cotta veneering. Produced by the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company, the terra cotta pastel blues and reds are still quite noticeable, and the individual tile units are sound, with tight mortar joints. The architectural style of the facade is eclectic, in the mood of the 1893 to 1917 period when architects felt free to use any and all decorative motifs as they saw fit. Its highly ornate facade is an imaginative combination of Gothic, Italian Renaissance, and Baroque decorations. Terra cotta is also used extensively in the interior of the building in the lobby, coffee shop, and stairwell.
The hotel was listed in the National Register on November 7, 1978, under National Register Criterion C, and its NRIS number is 78002273.
St Laurence’s Memorial School in Leongatha’s Ogilvy Street was opened on March 24th 1957 by the Bishop of Sale, the Most Reverend Richard Ryan.
Built of stuccoed brick, St Laurence’s Memorial School is a beautiful example of post-war Art Deco architecture. The scalloped edge of the parapet, the stepped skyline, the emphatic vertical piers and the streamlined windows of rippled glass all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Art Deco architecture that was so popular and iconic before the Second World War.
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
St Laurence’s Memorial School in Leongatha’s Ogilvy Street was opened on March 24th 1957 by the Bishop of Sale, the Most Reverend Richard Ryan.
Built of stuccoed brick, St Laurence’s Memorial School is a beautiful example of post-war Art Deco architecture. The scalloped edge of the parapet, the stepped skyline, the emphatic vertical piers and the streamlined windows of rippled glass all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Art Deco architecture that was so popular and iconic before the Second World War.
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
Museo de Arte Popular building (built for the city fire department (!)) 1927
Vicente Mendiola - architect
A feature of the building is the reliefs with pre-Hispanic motifs that decorate the facade in stone.
Avenida Independencia
Mexico City
1 February 2014
2014-Mexico 1981
A wonderful example of art deco in Tulsa
The Adams Hotel is located on a lot in the heart of the Central Business District of Tulsa. Built by I. S. Mincks to capitalize on the 1928 International Petroleum Exposition, the building has thirteen floors, with a full basement and penthouse. A 1935 liquidation sale gave it new owners and a new name: the Adams Hotel.
The Adams facade is widely recognized as an excellent example of glazed terra-cotta veneering. Produced by the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company, the terra cotta pastel blues and reds are still quite noticeable, and the individual tile units are sound, with tight mortar joints. The architectural style of the facade is eclectic, in the mood of the 1893 to 1917 period when architects felt free to use any and all decorative motifs as they saw fit. Its highly ornate facade is an imaginative combination of Gothic, Italian Renaissance, and Baroque decorations. Terra cotta is also used extensively in the interior of the building in the lobby, coffee shop, and stairwell.
The hotel was listed in the National Register on November 7, 1978, under National Register Criterion C, and its NRIS number is 78002273.
St Laurence’s Memorial School in Leongatha’s Ogilvy Street was opened on March 24th 1957 by the Bishop of Sale, the Most Reverend Richard Ryan.
Built of stuccoed brick, St Laurence’s Memorial School is a beautiful example of post-war Art Deco architecture. The scalloped edge of the parapet, the stepped skyline, the emphatic vertical piers and the streamlined windows of rippled glass all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Art Deco architecture that was so popular and iconic before the Second World War.
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
St Laurence’s Memorial School in Leongatha’s Ogilvy Street was opened on March 24th 1957 by the Bishop of Sale, the Most Reverend Richard Ryan.
Built of stuccoed brick, St Laurence’s Memorial School is a beautiful example of post-war Art Deco architecture. The scalloped edge of the parapet, the stepped skyline, the emphatic vertical piers and the streamlined windows of rippled glass all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Art Deco architecture that was so popular and iconic before the Second World War.
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
One of the truly great art deco buildings in Los Angeles is the Bullocks Wilshire Building on Wilshire Blvd. The building was designed by Los Angeles architects John and Donald Parkinson and construction was completed in 1929 for use as a luxury department store. it was one of the first department stores in Los Angeles to cater to the burgeoning automobile culture, another interesting note about the building is that the 241-foot tower whose top is sheathed in copper had a light in the tower peak that could be seen for miles around back in the day.
A historic-cultural monument of the City of Los Angeles, it was listed in the US National Register of Historic Places in 1978
Title
Symbols - Daytime, Martini Glass - Cocktail Lounge, College Liquors Restaurant Neon Sign, Art Deco Storefront, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Contributors
researcher: Gyorgy Kepes (American, 1906-2001)
researcher: Kevin Lynch (American, 1918-1984)
photographer: Nishan Bichajian (American, 20th century)
Date
creation date: between 1954-1959
Location
Creation location: Cambridge (Massachusetts, United States)
Repository: Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
ID: Kepes/Lynch Collection, 72.05
Period
Modern
Type
Photograph
Copyright
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access Statement
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Identifier
KL_001771
DSpace_Handle
Looking north from Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood towards Sunset Tower and beyond to houses clustered along Hollywood Boulevard on the lower slopes of Hollywood Hills.
Sunset Tower was built as a luxury apartment hotel on West Sunset Boulevard "Sunset Strip" in 1931 to the designs of architect Leland A. Bryant. At 15 storeys it was then the tallest apartment block in LA and it was marketed to Hollywood celebrities. It epitomised the art deco glamour of Hollywood and its list of residents reads like a roll call of the early film industry. In recent years it has been restored and converted into the Sunset Tower Hotel.
See:
The National Hotel in ground outdoor swimming pool photographed at night.
The National Hotel
1677 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 532-2311
Photo
Miami Beach Florida
11-24-2010
Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.