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1941, Harold G. Stoner for the Stoneson Brothers real estate development group
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Harold G. Stoner: www.mtdavidson.org/harold_g._stoner
The Union Station was built by the Union Pacific; Southern Pacific; and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroads. The station opened in 1939, proclaimed as America's last great rail terminal. The building has a blend of architecture styles-- Spanish Mission Revival, Streamline Moderne (Art Deco) and Colonial Revival. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The photograph was taken in 2014. To view a 1990 photograph of the station go to www.flickr.com/photos/23711298@N07/2909859250/
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 138, designed around existing buildings in 1936 by Robert V. Derrah.
Village Theatre - Faribault, Minnesota
Architect: Perry E. Crosier
"In 1946, Perry Crosier, in association with the firm of Liebenberg & Kaplan, completely remodeled the Village in late Streamline Moderne style. The theater originally opened in the 20s, in a structure dating to the 1890s built as an armory.
The theater survived into the 70s, and after closing, housed a bar and later an appliance store. The former Village was converted into a church a couple years ago, with its lobby and facade restored to their 40s appearance."
Dusk in South Beach at the end of my grand architectural tour and now I'm spotting cultural details :>)))))
Illuminated "Parcel Post" sign and FDR plaque inside the former USPS Rincon Annex, currently part of the Rincon Center.
San Francisco, California.
June, 2010
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...
A 1930 Deco building designed by Charles Holden.
The section of the High Barnet branch north of East Finchley was incorporated into the London Underground network through the "Northern Heights" project begun in the late 1930s.
This sculpture was designed by Eric Aumonier, and points south to Archway
I have similar photos from other years and they look spacey like some of the nearby leftovers from the World's Fair Grounds. Newest news www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyregion/diving-board-in-queen...
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.
Artifacts from Mr. Wolfson's collection on the 5th floor of the Wolfsonian Museum where non-flash photography was allowed - these through a glass case -
Illuminated "Customs" and "Post Office" sign inside the former USPS Rincon Annex, currently part of the Rincon Center.
San Francisco, California.
June, 2010
The changing rooms and ticket stall at the Astoria Park Pool complex still the original lettering, glass block, design from the 1936 WPA build :>))
Amtrak Exhibit Train Store No. 85999. This was built for Amtrak by the Budd Company in 1976 as Amclub number 20130. This car featured a “split club” configuration of 18 club seats at one end and 23 coach seats on the other. In 2000, the car was converted to Capstone Café car 85004 for use on the newly branded Acela Regional service. It was stored in 2005 due to an excess of food service cars of this type in the fleet.
Art deco / streamline moderne style Freemason's Hospital building, Cnr Albert and Clarendon Streets, East Melbourne, Victoria. Built 1935. Architect: Sir Arthur George Stephenson.
There are more horizontal bars to be added below the readerboard, and a new transformer is needed to light the tippy top.
The neon glass is covered through the Valerie Sivinski Washington Preserves Fund.
This is the same building as the next only along the beach boulevard (long side of building view). I liked the sea colored glass street art as well on the water's edge boardwalk in Hastings or St. Leonard's of the English shore.
I don't think this is an old original art deco obelisk but correct me if wrong, someone more familiar with South Beach.
I was in traffic, just after crossing the MacArthur Causeway and on the main street 5th Ave. in SoBe for more photos.
A circular window that is often a feature of the Streamline Moderne style of Art Deco is visible on the upper level of the theatre.
The glass areas along the side of the building are of yellow glass.
You can see that this is a flat-roofed Streamline Moderne house that was altered at a later time. The owners have added pitched roof additions on top of the original flat roofs.
Norfolk Southern No. 8324 (GE C40-8W) assisted by Norfolk Southern No. 7591 (GE ES40DC) and Norfolk Southern No. 8321 (GE C40-8W), pulls a westbound freight train past the Toledo Amtrak Station. The lead engine was originally built in May 1990 as Conrail No. 6068 (GE C40-8W). In 1999, when 58 percent of Conrail was absorbed into Norfolk Southern, the engine was renamed and renumbered to reflect the new ownership.
Entryway of the former USPS Rincon Annex, currently part of the Rincon Center.
San Francisco, California.
June, 2010
The Greyhound Station is one of the city’s best examples of the Streamline Moderne style, with its rounded corner, curved canopy, and ribbon windows on the upper level. This popular style of the 1930s and 1940s was meant to express movement and speed, and the building matched the styling of the company’s busses during that period. Architect: W. D. Peugh
before the storm
We've had such lovely autumn weather lately, but it's all about to change. Forecast is for big winds, rain, and flooding potential. Here comes winter...
I'm pretty sure that this is the old Princess Theater. It was Sobo's Theater most recently, but now it's home to Sobo's Bazaar.
Main Street, South Boston.
1939, Timothy Pflueger, Arthur Brown, Jr., John J. Donovan
Closed yesterday, August 6, 2010. Photos are from August 1st.
Slated for demolition.
www.examiner.com/x-11025-Bay-Area-Public-Transportation-E...
historic background:
www.verlang.com/sfbay0004ref_20thc_012.html#425_mission
flickr group
www.flickr.com/groups/transbayterminal/
official redevelopment website - a bunch of flash animations :-(