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Aquatic Park and Cove is on the National Register of Historic Places #84001183 and also a National Historic Landmark. The buildings were designed and constructed through the Works Progress Administration.
This building is actually bright blue. It's the oldest Greyhound station in the U.S. It was built in 1938 in Jackson, TN and still functions today.
Shot with a Nikon F100.
aka Harvard-Yale
Salt Lake County, UT
Listed: 11/08/2007
The Yalecrest Historic District is located on the east bench of Salt Lake City, southeast of the business and downtown section. With a period of significance from 1910 to 1957, it is locally significant both architecturally and historically. Under Criterion A the district is significant for its association with the residential development of the east bench of Salt Lake City by real estate developers and builders in the first half of the twentieth century. Its tract period revival cottages and subdivisions of larger houses for the more well-to-do represent the boom and optimism of the 1920s and 1930s in Salt Lake City. The district is also significant under Criterion C for its intact architectural homogeneity. It was built out quickly with twenty-two subdivisions platted from 1910 to 1938 containing houses that reflect the popular styles of the era, largely period revival cottages in English Tudor and English Cottage styles. The architectural variety and concentration of period cottages found in the district is unrivalled in the state. Examples from Yalecrest are used to illustrate period revival styles in the only statewide architectural style manua1.8 The subdivisions were platted and built by the prominent architects and developers responsible for early twentieth century east side Salt Lake City development. It is associated with local real estate developers who shaped the patterns of growth of the east bench of Salt Lake City in the twentieth century. Yalecrest was initially and continues to be the residential area of choice for prominent men and women of the city. The district is locally renowned as the "Harvard-Yale area" and its streets lined with mature trees and historic houses are referenced in advertising for twenty-first century subdivisions elsewhere in the Salt Lake Valley. It is a remarkably visually cohesive area with uniform setbacks, historic houses of the same era with comparable massing and landscaping, streets lined with mature shade trees, and a surprising level of contributing buildings that retain their historic integrity. The district contains a concentration of architecturally significant period revival cottages and bungalows designed by renowned architects and builders of Utah. The historic resources of the Yalecrest Historic District contribute to the history of the residential east bench development of Salt Lake City.
Built as a single-screen theater around the late-1940’s by Redwood Theatres chain. This theater was designed in Streamline Moderne style, but the interior of the original theater has been removed and the walls covered in red curtains.
The main auditorium had its stage removed and was split in two in the late-1960’s or early-1970’s. In 1980, two screens were added, and again, in 2000, another two were added, bringing the total to six screens.
The large, stylized pylon sign in front of the theater is one of a small handful of landmarks in Ukiah to be officially recognized and given protective status.
Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Department Store (1938-40) by S.W. Ackroyd, Powis St, Woolwich.
Photo taken on a walk around Woolwich with the 20th Century Society on 6th October 2012.
... is an office building in Hollywood that has a tower with a globe in the front and ship-like porthole windows all the way around.
The mezzanine which featured in Poirot, with curving rail and domed cuppola featuring relief scuptures of 1930's aeroplanes flying around. I'm sure the hanging lights aren't quite right , neither are the triangle of green chairs. The Poirot episode featured cane chairs which looked right. Couldn't they have been kept?
The Camberwell Police Station and Court House Complex on the Corner of Camberwell Road and Butler Street in the Melbourne eastern suburb of Camberwell, was designed by Public Works Department architect, Percy Edgar Everett (1888 - 1967).
The complex was built by W. A. Medbury between 1938 and 1939. in the Streamline Moderne style which had been influencing Australian architecture since its first appearance in the early 1930s. The complex is set on a diagonal axis. The buildings are constructed of red, brown and manganese bricks and contain Percy Everett's trademark pattern detailing.
The complex still retains a law enforcement function to this day, as the court house is now used for Administrative Appeals Tribunals and the police station still functions.
Percy Everett's other architectural works include; the Fairfield Club House in 1934, the Essendon technical School in 1939 and the Russell Street Police Headquarters in 1942 and 1943.
I wish I could tell you if these old chairs were original to the Winterhaven but I can't - I'm just assuming they are period art deco and found nearby in Miami Beach.
By Fritz Block and Ernst Hochfeld, 1928-29. Streamline Moderne style office block on a corner site. A 9-storey building with a steel frame; the brick façade divided horizontally by bands of windows.
The German House at Gänsemarkt originally contained one of the largest cinemas in Europe as Ufa-Palast with seating for 2700 patrons, however it was largely destroyed by fire damage during WWII in 1944 and rebuilt.
Art deco signage, glass block and over all construction at the Astoria Park pool buildings engineered by Robert Moses. www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_history/pools.html Newest news www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyregion/diving-board-in-queen...
Rising above a protective hedge of trees, these red brick Art Deco flats on Alexandra Avenue in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra afford splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline.
Made of red brick and concrete they are very Streamline Moderne, feature Functionalist windows rounded balconies, angular living room windows, rounded porticos and are typical of the style of avant-garde architecture that grew in popularity amongst the more affluent areas of Melbourne in the late 1930s.
As a small child, I was fascinated with the elevators at Bullock's Pasadena. They were my favorite part about shopping there. Before my recent visit, I wondered if the elevators looked the same now, but I seriously doubted it. I was completely amazed, however, to discover that they still look exactly as they did 50 years ago! The only difference I could see was that the brass backplates for the up/down buttons had been replaced, but other than that, they looked entirely original to me. This is the bank of elevators on the U floor of the building, adjacent to what used to be the Boy's Department of Bullock's.
Macy's Pasadena Plaza on Lake Avenue, Pasadena, CA, September 22, 2011.
This photo had 5 views during the time it was posted on my ashetlandpony Flickr account.
Sale, Victoria, Australia
Now part of the Macalister Secondary College.
Foundation stone date: 11th Feb 1944
The Camberwell Police Station and Court House Complex on the Corner of Camberwell Road and Butler Street in the Melbourne eastern suburb of Camberwell, was designed by Public Works Department architect, Percy Edgar Everett (1888 - 1967).
The complex was built by W. A. Medbury between 1938 and 1939. in the Streamline Moderne style which had been influencing Australian architecture since its first appearance in the early 1930s. The complex is set on a diagonal axis. The buildings are constructed of red, brown and manganese bricks and contain Percy Everett's trademark pattern detailing.
The complex still retains a law enforcement function to this day, as the court house is now used for Administrative Appeals Tribunals and the police station still functions.
Percy Everett's other architectural works include; the Fairfield Club House in 1934, the Essendon technical School in 1939 and the Russell Street Police Headquarters in 1942 and 1943.
Treasure Island, San Francisco
Building 1 is a Streamline Moderne-styled remnant of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition and is one of the few buildings remaining from the exposition. Originally intended as the terminal for the airport, it housed the Treasure Island Museum from 1976 to 1997. Today it serves largely as offices for The Villages, a private apartment rental agency, the SFPD Behavioral Science Unit and the Treasure Island Development Authority.
George W. Kelham, architect
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Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Department Store (1938-40) by S.W. Ackroyd, Powis St, Woolwich.
Photo taken on a walk around Woolwich with the 20th Century Society on 6th October 2012.
Glen Echo Park, part of the National Parks Service, is located just outside of Washington D.C., In the Maryland Suburbs.
See another of my photos of these art deco bus shelters from my first trip to Birghton in 2007: "Brighton, on Britain’s south coast, is one city which has lost its tramway. But it hasn’t lost everything. Brighton’s most famous building is the Royal Pavilion, a bizarre and flamboyant piece of sunny faux Orientalism plonked on the grey and drizzly shores of Britain at the behest of King George IV (one of the less popular members of the British royal family). It’s Grade I listed by statutory heritage organisation Historic England and is probably one of the most eye-catching buildings in Britain.
Yet readers of this blog may find their eyes drawn instead to a collection of buildings just outside the Pavilion. On Old Steine stand some rather super survivors of Brighton’s tram system in the shape of three waiting shelters. Estimated to have been constructed around 1926, probably by Borough Engineer David Edwards, this trio of tram shelters are in what Historic England terms “International Style”. But they look Streamline Moderne to me. They have rounded ends, and matching overhanging roofs. Construction is of concrete, with metal glazing bars. They are open to the road side (for getting on and off trams) but glazed on the pavement side (for preventing draughts).
Historic England’s predecessor English Heritage listed the shelters at Grade II. Best of all, they are still in use in as bus shelters to this day. They are nearly 90 years old but continue to serve the public transport users of Brighton admirably and stylishly." thebeautyoftransport.com/2013/09/11/gimme-stylish-shelter...
In 1935 two immigrants architects, were chosen to enliven Bexhill as a British seaside resort, the German Erich Mendelsohn and the Russian Serge Chermayetf. --------- (LON_DSCN8394).
The High and Over is a beautiful modernist house built between 1928 and 1930. Architects - Connell, Ward and Lucas. The house has appeared in a branch of the detective series "Poirot" based on the novels of Agatha Christie. You can read more about the High and Over at adrianyekkes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/more-from-metroland-a...
This great moderne building in Marks, Mississippi has been adaptively reused as a school bus shop. I believe it was originally a Chevrolet dealership.
Former Clock cinema in Leeds, Harehills. Designed by Norman Fowler of Messrs Kitson, Parish, Ledgard and Pyman of Leeds and built by C.H.F. Lax & Co., the Clock opened in November 1938 and closed for films, after nearly 40 years, in February 1976. It was converted to a bingo hall which also closed during the 1980's. It was gutted internally and transformed into a electrical store and offices.
Harehills, Leeds, West Yorkshire - Clock Cinema / Mecca Bingo, Roundhay Road
A scanned negative originally taken in March 1986
streamline moderne with glass block
Encline Court
Miraloma Park neighborhood, San Francisco
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Somewhere in my travels online, I found a not to scale version of a statue that used to be on a pedestal at Astoria Park Pool - "Imagine the crowds of depression era bathers passing through these corridors :>) www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_history/pools.html A moderne design diving board in Astoria Park in Astoria, Queens in NYC and a 1936 WPA pool. "At 330 feet in length, the main section of Astoria Pool is the largest in New York City and hosted the Olympic Trials for the US Swim and Diving Teams at the pool's grand opening on July 4, 1936. "
In the NY TImes 3/6/2012 this diving board was discussed because they want to turn the old diving pool into an ampitheater and leave the board as a prop - www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyregion/diving-board-in-queen...
Here are some more cool old b&w photos of the whole pool area of the park: collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult_VPage&VB... "
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.
The historic Police Apartments (gotta recheck that name) - have the coolest stairways in all of Shanghai. Check out the one at left.
Cool brick patterns. Too bad the elevated highway to the right (above Chengdu Rd), the trees, and the huge billboard on the roof, prevent us from getting a good unobstructed view of this unique building.
I have several more photos I'll post over the coming days. There is an interior courtyard with another beautiful stairway, exterior hallways, tons of bicycles and laundry, and twin garbage chutes. All nicely maintained with no signs of "renovation".
There is a rather small, blurry back & white photo of the Winter Haven's lobby in my lobby shot of the Crescent here: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/3005189635/
Night time view of The Peacock Public House which is situated in Ibex House on the historic 'Minories' street in the Aldgate area of the City of London in London (UK).
The art deco streamline moderne 'Ibex House' opened in 1937 and is a Grade II listed building while I suspect The Peacock dates from much later.