Nowadays hardly anybody can afford to spend money on fancy curved walls but the U.S. used to be rich.

Watch as the façade curves around to the metal-framed glass door, with a sidelight on the left. Wow, do you see it?

 

The dark blue awning with beige stripes is so perfect for the building, why, I cannot even imagine the building without it.

 

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In downtown Jacksonville, Illinois, on October 31st, 2020, Big Brothers Big Sisters of West Central Illinois on the north side of East Morgan Street, between South Mauvaisterre Street and South East Street, in the "Arthur Vogts Building," a "contributing property" to the Jacksonville Downtown Historic District, 100002915 on the National Register of Historic Places, built circa 1950.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Jacksonville (2028478)

• Morgan (county) (1002693)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• awnings (300254200)

• beige (color) (300266234)

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• commercial buildings (300005147)

• curved (300010305)

• dark blue (300129621)

• glass doors (300375668)

• historic buildings (300008063)

• historic districts (300000737)

• oblique views (300015503)

• pickups (trucks) (300220034)

• shop signs (300211862)

• side lights (windows) (300069495)

• Streamlined Moderne (300253564)

• stripes (300010230)

• tan (color) (300266248)

• white (color) (300129784)

 

Wikidata items:

• 31 October 2020 (Q57396957)

• 1950s in architecture (Q11185577)

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (Q858605)

• Central Illinois (Q5061228)

• contributing property (Q76321820)

• Ford F-Series (Q1146685)

• Halloween (Q251868)

• Jacksonville Downtown Historic District (Q96384000)

• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)

• October 31 (Q2949)

• October 2020 (Q55281169)

• Western Illinois (Q14925128)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Brick walls (sh85016796)

• Commercial buildings—Illinois (sh89006915)

• Historic districts—Illinois (sh94002875)

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