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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.
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.
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.
Completed in 1928, it was the tallest building in the world outside of New York until Moscow University (to which I think it bears more than a passing resemblence) was completed in 1953.
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park is a cemetery and crematorium at Matraville, in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The crematorium was opened in 1938.
The memorial park incorporates Botany Cemetery, Eastern Suburbs Crematorium and Pioneer Park.
Pioneer Park is where headstones from early Sydney burial grounds have been relocated. (Source Wikipedia)
This crematorium and chapel looks a lot like Newcastle crematorium and Woronora Cemetery's crematorium which was designed by Louis Robertson, architect and constructed by R. Smith, Master builder of Bexley; completed and officially opened on April 21, 1934. Was this building also designed by Robertson?
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.
Above the entrance to Timothy Pfleuger's 1930 Stock Exchange Tower at 155 Sansome Street is a relief sculpture by Ralph Stackpole, "The Progress of Man". It was carved in situ by Stackpole and a team of four carvers standing on a scaffold hidden behind a canvas screen.
The figures on either side of the main man's globe are setting out on their life's journeys by land (L) and sea (R). Behind them the rain falls, the lightning flashes and a rainbow arches over everything.
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.