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July 8, 2023 - Coliseu Porto Ageas (Coliseum of Porto) at R. de Passos Manuel 137. Designed by Portuguese architect: Cassiano Branco. Opened on December 19, 1941.
This city hall is for K.C., Mo., not KCK. Can you imagine if KCK had something like this.
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In downtown Kansas City, Missouri, on March 27th, 2022, Kansas City City Hall (completed in 1937; designed by Wight & Wight) on the south side of East 11th Street, between Oak Street and Locust Street, as viewed from the west side of Oak, south of 12th.
The building is clad in Bedford limestone, a/k/a Indiana limestone, which is known geologically as the Salem Limestone formation of the Sanders group, formed during the Viséan age of the Mississippian subperiod of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era, ~346.7 to ~330.9 million years ago.
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Jackson (county) (2001208)
• Kansas City (7013820)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• Art Deco (300021426)
• beige (color) (300266234)
• Carboniferous (300391469)
• city halls (300122210)
• Indiana limestone (300011321)
• oblique views (300015503)
• office towers (300007046)
• Paleozoic (300391254)
• skyscrapers (300004809)
Wikidata items:
• 27 March 2022 (Q69306379)
• 1930s in architecture (Q16482516)
• 1937 in architecture (Q2811680)
• Art Deco architecture (Q12720942)
• Downtown Kansas City (Q2944777)
• Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS Combined Statistical Area (Q111496508)
• March 27 (Q2457)
• March 2022 (Q61312974)
• Mississippian (Q744718)
• Salem Limestone (Q18353656)
• Sanders Group (Q119059527)
• Treaty with the Osage, 1825 (Q7105525)
• Viséan (Q647290)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Public buildings—Missouri (sh85086231)
Union List of Artist Names IDs:
• Wight & Wight (architectural firm, active in United States in 1895) (500516604)
Atlas (1937)
Lee Lawrie (1877-1963)
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).
Lobby area of the historic General Electric Building at 570 Lexington Avenue, done in Art Deco style.
I'm always on the lookout, especially from the top floor of an English bus on the seacoast in the Sussexes !:>)!
Located in northeastern New Mexico, Colfax County is named for Schuyler Colfax, who was Vice President under Ulysses S. Grant.
New Mexico Territory had nine counties when it was established in 1852. In 1859, the eastern portion of Taos County was split off to become Mora County. On January 25, 1869, Colfax County was established from the northern portion of Mora County.
The original county seat of Colfax County was the goldmining town of Elizabethtown. In 1872, after the gold rush had died down, the county seat was moved to Cimarron. In 1881, the count seat was moved again, this time to Springer. After a bitter legislative fight, the set was moved to the coal mining town of Raton in 1897, where it remains today.
The 1936 WPA Art Deco courthouse in Raton is the second in Raton, and the (I'm guessing) fifth courthouse overall. The ones in Cimarron and Springer are still standing.
Some features of the current courthouse are the decorative panels of the brands of area ranches set around the entryway. There are also carved cattle heads and bas reliefs of farming and mining scenes.
Located in northeastern New Mexico, Colfax County is named for Schuyler Colfax, who was Vice President under Ulysses S. Grant.
New Mexico Territory had nine counties when it was established in 1852. In 1859, the eastern portion of Taos County was split off to become Mora County. On January 25, 1869, Colfax County was established from the northern portion of Mora County.
The original county seat of Colfax County was the goldmining town of Elizabethtown. In 1872, after the gold rush had died down, the county seat was moved to Cimarron. In 1881, the count seat was moved again, this time to Springer. After a bitter legislative fight, the set was moved to the coal mining town of Raton in 1897, where it remains today.
The 1936 WPA Art Deco courthouse in Raton is the second in Raton, and the (I'm guessing) fifth courthouse overall. The ones in Cimarron and Springer are still standing.
Some features of the current courthouse are the decorative panels of the brands of area ranches set around the entryway. There are also carved cattle heads and bas reliefs of farming and mining scenes.
Completed in 1933, the Art Deco Kyle Building (aka Kyle Block) was built close to the location of the former Kyle Opera House, which was built in 1901, and torn down in 1931 to allow for the extension of Willow Street.
Originally retail space, it was built by oilman and merchant Wesley W. Kyle Jr. and his brother Brudge E. Kyle. It has undergone two renovations since then, and now mainly houses lawyers offices
Lobby area of the historic General Electric Building at 570 Lexington Avenue, done in Art Deco style.
The area now known as the State of Arkansas was acquired by the US in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Arkansas Territory (Territory of Arkansaw) was formed in 1819, and was admitted into the union as the 25th state on June 15, 1836.
Originally part of Sevier County, Polk County was first settled by whites around 1830. In November of 1844, the area was separated from Sevier County, and named for President James K. Polk. The first county seat was in the town of Dallas, which was named for Polk’s Vice President, George Dallas.
In 1896, the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad (now the Kansas City Southern Railroad), founded by Arthur E. Stillwell, platted out a townsite named for Folmina Margaretha Janssen-De Goeijen, called Mena, who was the wife of Jan de Goeigen, a wealthy Dutch merchant who helped finance the railroad. The railroad arrived in Mena on August 19, 1896, and Mena was incorporated on September 18, 1896. In June of 1898, a special election was held, and it was voted to move the county seat from Dallas to Mena.
The 1939 Art Deco style building in the center of Mena is the county’s fourth courthouse. It was constructed by the Works Progress Administration, using local labor. The first two courthouses were in the then county seat of Dallas. The first was built in 1844, and burned down. The second was built in 1869, and burned down in 1883. The first courthouse in Mena was built in 1898 (I don’t know what happened to that one).