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Seaton Carew Art Deco Seafront Bus Station at the southern end of the resort. Plans are afoot to develop this seaside architectural gem as a centrepiece to the attractive Seaton Carew seaside resort just south of Hartlepool.
Location: 600 S. Main St.
(Downtown)
Architect: Arthur M. Atkinson
Joseph R. Koberling, Jr.
Completed: 1929
Style: Art Deco – Zigzag
National Register Listed: Yes
The Public Service of Oklahoma Building was an early Art Deco construction in Tulsa. The selection of this style by a generally conservative utility company established its acceptance and paved the way for the host of Art Deco buildings which were to follow.
This building is also significant historically because it reflects the tremendous growth of Tulsa from 1920 to 1930. By 1927, construction costs in downtown Tulsa were averaging one million dollars a month. By 1930, Tulsa had more buildings of ten or more stories than any city of its size in the world.
The building is constructed of reinforced concrete, with a steel structural frame, and steel window frames covered by light grey Bedford limestone. The company was also in the retail business in 1929, and the windows on the ground floor are large enough to accommodate displays of merchandise. The stylized design of these windows reflects the Gothic predecessor of Art Deco.
One of the most unusual features of the building is its beautiful nighttime illumination by a series of strategically placed lights. The architect, Arthur M. Atkinson, who was also a professional engineer, implemented this feature to showcase the client's product which, of course, was electricity. The torch-shaped light fixtures are decorated with Art Deco motifs of chevrons and stepped-back geometrical patterns.
The building continues to be a viable part of downtown Tulsa and provides a visible and tangible link to an important period in its past.
The Boerentoren tower (right) and the Meir Building in the Belgian city of Antwerp
15 June 2019
La tour Boerentoren (à droite) et le Meir Building à la ville belge d'Anvers
15 juin 2019
By Lee Lawrie
At the entrance to 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Underneath, the text reads:
Wisdom and Knowledge shall be the stability of thy times
[Isaiah 33:6]
The Rockefeller Center was sponsored by, and named after, John D Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960). The development consists of 14 Art Deco buildings, designed by Raymond Mathewson Hood (1881-1934) and constructed between 1930-39, plus 4 International-Style buildings built in the 1960-70s.
The only project employed 40,000 people, and cost an estimated $250m at the time (this included the acquiring the land and demolishing some existing buildings).
Power & Light Building, as seen looking northwest from the intersection of Main Street and Truman Road South (south of I-670).
Kansas City, Missouri
Thursday morning 25 September 2025
Transport House (built in 1938) was purpose built for the Department of Road Transport and Tramwaysto house all previously separate departments in one building.
It remains and has been conserved as an outstanding example of early Modernist architecture in the Inter-war stripped Classical and Art Deco style (Source: Plaque)
I have been fortunate enough to be shown inside the central area that is now being used by Satchii. It reminds me of an old bank and I understand was used as an area were the Public could enter and renew motor vehicle registrations and licences.
Street-level view of the Carbide & Carbon Building, 230 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. The building is now the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago.
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Location: 427 S. Boston Ave.
(Downtown)
Architect: Edwin Buehler Delk and
Keene and Simpson
Completed: 1927
National Register Listed: Yes
Perhaps more than any other building in Tulsa, the Philtower Building is believed by many to have figured in the major decisions affecting the oil and gas industry in the United States. This was particularly true through the 1950's, when many of the most influential of the industry's leaders were either tenants in or visitors to the Philtower.
The building also has architectural signifcance. It represents the late Gothic Revival style embellished with Art Deco details. Among its notable features are its sloping, unusually colorful tiled roof; two gargoyles above the Boston Avenue entrance; a magnificent first-floor lobby with unique chandeliers; and a broad second-floor mall. The generous use of mahogany throughout the building is also striking. Another interesting feature is the carefully preserved office occupied by Waite Phillips. Its beamed ceiling extends upward in an A-frame manner to a height of twenty feet. It boasts richly paneled walls, a small fireplace framed in blue tile, and a private bathroom.
The Philtower was considered strategic in both time and location. It was to have been the link in architectural magnificence between the then-proposed Union Train Station at the north end of Boston, and the soaring Boston Avenue Methodist Church on the south. The building stands much as when it opened in 1928. Its strikingly colorful, sloping, shing-tiled roof still spots the blue night with checkers of yellow.
I realize this was taken before One Vanderbilt was put up. This bridge is used by many to photograph "Manhattanhenge". I prefer to go there when its more quiet, like this time was.
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The El Rey Theatre built in 1936 is another amazing Art Deco theatre here in Los Angeles
running films for over fifty years the theatre was converted into a live music venue in 1994 and has been used as such ever since. Now listed as a Historic-Cultural Monument this wonderful theatre has been a thriving survivor when many of these aren't
Opened in 1906 as the Bakersfield Opera House and re-named the Nile in 1924, that theater was completely raised in 1938 and re-designed by S. Charles Lee in a Art Moderne style running first run films until closing in 1994 ........ the Nile was eventually re-opened in 2006 as a nightclub but it is now back to being vacant and needing some new life........ still a fine example of an art deco theatre
Parking lot of Omaha Union Station at twilight.
Omaha Union Station (1931) was one of the first Art Deco train station in the United States. It closed for rail service in the 1970s and now houses the Durham Museum. Omaha's other passenger train station, the Italianate Burlington Station (1898) also closed in 1974 when a new Amtrak station was built a block or so to the east. The Burlington Station just underwent a major renovation, see this photo set and info.
I've shot the Durham Museum / Union Station a couple other times. See here for full set and here for a blog post featuring shots from December 2015.
The central figure in Rivera's mural "Riches of California" represents Calafia - the Spirit of California. The figure was modelled on Helen Wills Moody, the American tennis star.
By Paul Manship (1885-1966)
From Lower Plaza, Rockefeller Center
The Rockefeller Center was sponsored by, and named after, John D Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960). The development consists of 14 Art Deco buildings, designed by Raymond Mathewson Hood (1881-1934) and constructed between 1930-39, plus 4 International-Style buildings built in the 1960-70s.
The only project employed 40,000 people, and cost an estimated $250m at the time (this included the acquiring the land and demolishing some existing buildings).
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.
The Foshay Tower is a skyscraper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Modeled after the Washington Monument, the sides of the building slope slightly inward and each floor is slightly smaller than the one below. It was completed in 1929, designed by Léon Eugène Arnal. It has 32 floors and stands 447 feet (136 m) high, with an observation deck on top. The antenna mast extends the total height of the structure to 607 feet (185m). The building, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, is an example of Art Deco architecture. Wilbur Foshay, a businessman, built the structure and lived on floors 27 and 28, with a fireplace. library, marble walls and glass-paneled ceilings. Foshay invited 25,000 guests to the dedication ceremony. Half nude dancers entertained. Each guest received a gold pocket watch. The military gave 19-gun salutes. John Philip Sousa conducted music, including a march he wrote for the occasion. Six weeks after the building's opening, the stock market crashed and Foshay lost it all. It is now a hotel, with shops and restaurants.
This monumental office building was designed by for the eponymous insurance company by architects Master, Sarhe and Bhuta, with assistance from artistic designer N.G. Parsare.
It displays its Art Deco credentials in its huge vertical ribs, massive allegorical statuary (not quite sure who/what is being depicted though) and sleek clean lines. There are detailed reliefs depicting both Indian agricultural (to the right of the entrance) and industrial (to the left) scenes.
A cool old Art Deco Building built in 1923 that used to house a Kress Store until 1980, it now now houses Plaza Storage
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CATALINA HOTEL COURT
At City Limits — GREENVILLE, S.C.
On U.S. Hi-Way 29, North
Completely Air Conditioned
Television—Telephones
[Quality Courts United logo] [AAA logo]
Duncan Hines Recommended
PHONE: 2-7622
GREENVILLE, S.C. — P.O. BOX 1837
Genuine Curteich-Chicago “C.T. Art-Colortone” Post Card (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.)
0C-H1887 [published 1950]
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Lens: Zeiss 80mm T* C
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The former Times Furnishing store on the High Street, in the city centre of Birmingham in the West Midlands.
Other than a cinema there is little Art-Deco architecture in Birmingham, the former Times Furnishing store is an exception. Designed by architects Burnett & Eprile in 1938, it is now a Waterstones book shop.
An eight-storey modern tower, its height emphasized by tall strips of windows linked by lead panels, their central fins with a kind of cubic billet moulding. Side pilasters with curved tops, and roof canopy floating free.
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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.